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To: FourtySeven
There is a lot to be said for extolling the virtues of a simple life. And there is no doubt in my mind that rampant consumerism in the modern world is a major contributor to many of the problems we face.

Interestingly, if I had read those passages and didn't know who had written them, I would have guessed that they were written by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

8 posted on 06/18/2015 9:19:11 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ( "It doesn't work for me. I gotta have more cowbell!")
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To: Alberta's Child

A simple life as defined by whom? Are we talking mud hut level of simple?


10 posted on 06/18/2015 9:25:51 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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