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All of us experience the sad effects of blind submission to consumerism. in the first place it represents crass materialism. at the same time it represents a radical dissatisfaction because one quickly learns that the more one possesses, the more one wants, while deeper aspirations remain unsatisfied and perhaps even stifled.
-Pope John Paul II
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All Of Us Experience The Sad Effects

Pope John Paul II
All of us experience the sad effects of blind submission to consumerism. in the first place it represents crass materialism. at the same time it represents a radical dissatisfaction because one quickly learns that the more one possesses, the more one wants, while deeper aspirations remain unsatisfied and perhaps even stifled.
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