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|| 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?
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