A simple life of waking up every morning, cycling until my legs feel like mush, eating Cup-O-Noodles, then reading great thoughts by flashlight in my tent.
Tonight's philosopher also wrote essays, poetry and novels on many subjects. He was a French guy named Georges Bataille. The following ideas were written around 1967 in 'The Accursed Share'.
Here's the short version...
You will never stop wanting. Your desire for those designer shoes, fur coat and diamonds is simply a desire, a primal need, for more and more. It is a desire that will never be sated however many of these luxury objects you manage to procure. They will go to waste as you continue to crave for something else. The waste will eventually drown society in its depraved wallowing. The real way forward is sacrifice, not acquisition.
SOURCE - Philosophical Classics: The Thinking Person's Guide to Great Philosophical Books
-- Major Dude
Cheesy photo of Major Dude in his patented double-t-shirt sleeping cap
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