[pf] "that's for me!" - a problem?

· It's just before my Friday lunch-time; I looked in the fridge (to get
some milk for my tea - when I'm hungry I drink tea or cocoa) and saw some
very nice Maasdam cheese. I took none, since it was bought by someone else.

· Most people, seeing something like that that they want, just take it:
"That's for me".

· A typical husband, coming home and finding cooking smells, doesn't pause
to think. He just assumes:
"That's for me".

· People in rich countries (the OECD) go shopping (often with a credit card
for greater "convenience") and when they see something they like, say to
themselves:
"That's for me". (No matter what they have already.)

· Rich people anywhere in the world see images of big houses on fancy
properties, and say:
"That's for me".
        Indenturing themselves to _decades_ of paid work to pay for them.

· Motorists in the USA try to create riots when the gas price goes up; they
look outside the USA and see "lots of petroleum" and say:
"That's for me".


· I wonder how much of the world's problems - IMO largely caused by the US
materialist culture - come down to unthinking greed? "It's all for me!"

· Not a thought: "should I?" No serious consideration of not-spending, or
of any of the possible consequences of their greed.

David.
David MacClement davd @ ihug.co.nz (remove spaces)
http://www.geocities.com/davd.geo/index.html#top
http://davd.tripod.com/GrAPR-020111.html#top
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