Beyond consumerism

The digital world is starting to develop, according to the rules of Moore's Law, offering the consumer all the more computing power. But do we need them? The question ambiguous, because the answer must be based on the purposes for which we use those or other tools. Of course, the computational power of the PC to perform office tasks and gaming needs - absolutely not comparable. But often, we always crave more than we really needed. And it becomes a disease. Dangerous diseases typical of our age.

Until the last century, people lived experiencing terrible shortage in many areas of life. Since the lack of food and water and ending with the lack of information (really funny for our time). We tschimsya take more than we can use, in principle, throughout our lives. Should I limit myself? Double-digit question.

If we consider the person as a person, we really need some headroom. Some, but not excessive. Our bodies are used to organize such stocks in the context of the development of the species. A primitive example - fat. Yes, to some extent, fat is needed, needed a century ago. But today the food in the civilized world, is available to any interested person. At the same time - it becomes a cult. Most large meals, ready-made products, the top of grace, when the food loses its basic function and becomes an art. On the one hand - this is evidence of the high level of civilization development. On the other - about the excessive use.

We can pay attention to the lyrics, which are assigned the status of "the sacred." After all sins (of any religion) are presented as certain qualities that we are paying too much time and effort. Conclusion - they do not help us to survive, but rather inhibit personal characteristics, making simple human animal, endowed with intelligence. Take the animal leave its values ​​and priorities, and endowed with great powers to their satisfaction. If after satisfying certain requirements, it will bring them to the peak, and again enjoying the same, it will be an animal in the full sense of the word. But the man - acquires a new level of needs and tries to satisfy them and have them only in the new pursuit of something more.

We can enjoy the lifetime benefits of infantile, in a state of a teenager. And we can begin to change himself, doing only the necessary. Get used to survive, claiming the status of a person, not a developed animal.

One can argue that it is better, it is easier to satisfy, which is easier to achieve ... But the right choice, we know for whom it remains.