by Wayne Leon Learmond

Created on: April 12, 2010   Last Updated: April 13, 2010

The stark answer is yes. Society today is drowning - and has been drowning - in excess for many many years. As the days and months pass by, always there are new gadgets arriving on the market, new things to buy, new things to desire and want. Yes, human beings will always want the next big thing that is on the market.

We drown in the latest and most up-to-date gadgets that we own. We drown in the shoes we own, the bags we carry, the clothes we buy. We drown in the food we purchase and eat {whilst paying those that grow the food, who are normally Third World Farmers, the lowest going rate, that they can barely live on.}

In fact, food mountains have piled up and up, in a world that has enough food to feed everybody ten times over. But greed has taken over our hearts and minds. We want want want, without giving back.  We take take take, without thinking about the consequences of our actions. And, what is left in the process?  What is the legacy that we leave behind? Nothing, but a world of excess and greed.

Advertisements bombard us with the latest products that we should be buying, the latest cars we should purchase {without thinking about the consequences to the health of the world's natural supplies.} Children, who will be the next generation of adults, now live in a world in which everything is available to them, and in which they GET everything that IS available on the market. Parents fuel this greed even more by continuing the trend of buy buy buy.

Film and sports stars are no better, when they themselves have two, three, or four homes on the run at the same time. They have two, three, or fours cars in the garage, and numerous television sets in every room  {as do most of the population now}. Greed is shown to be good and natural and, indeed, it is easy to give to charity, when the person giving is still overloaded with money. Try giving to charity when what you give is all that you have. But more and more, greed rules the world, and is seen to be good and healthy - whilst deep inside ourselves we are slowly dying, and losing touch of what makes us human.

It seems that those who have not much to give, who live in poor societies, seem to give the most, and also seem to be the happiest too, inside and out.  Whilst those that have, always seem to be miserable, run down with worries, and stress. It seems that the more we have, the more we want, as if in search for that 'elusive something'. And so we buy hoping to make ourselves feel better

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