I think about this a lot…by Bergotte Greed, Consumption and the Failure of Enough Late capitalism has produced one of the strangest societies in history: we have more of almost everything and yet live inside a permanent rhetoric of lack. We have too many clothes, too much furniture, too much technology, too much food, tooContinue reading “The Cult of More”
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To Whom Little Is Not Enough: On Sufficiency, Excess, and the Self That Cannot Stop Wanting
The Greeks had a precise diagnosis for the condition that defines our age. They called it pleonexia — the desire for more, the wanting that has no natural limit, the reaching that cannot stop because it does not know what it is reaching for. They considered it not merely a practical error but a moralContinue reading “To Whom Little Is Not Enough: On Sufficiency, Excess, and the Self That Cannot Stop Wanting”
My World of Interiors 