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40 || personal development | POWER OVER HABIT AN EPIDEMIC OF CONSUMPTION A pandemic has already infected a large part of humanity—but we’re not talking about tuberculosis, which used to be called consumption and which in fact is on the rise again. We’re talking about a different kind of consump- tion, a kind of virus that strikes not only our pocket books, but our very sys- tem of values. Humans, the erstwhile masters of life, have somehow imperceptibly devolved into Consumers, beings whose spur-of-the-moment desires pull them in different directions and distract them from the Great Is- sues of life. One feels a need to empathize with the “patients”: how can Consumers actually discern their own path if they live life floundering in a hash of other people’s raisons d'etre, symbols, and priorities? ALPEON.COM