We hear every single day of the 3rd world countries, and even the 2nd worlds. We live in a first world country, yes, 1st. This means that we are above everybody else. That is a powerful thing, and in the voice of uncle Ben "With great power, comes great responsibility." The issue is, is that we don't realise that what we have has given us such power. We often take what we have for granted, we aren't happy that our laptop is slow, we aren't happy that we have to drive a run down car, we aren't happy because we don't live in the biggest house or we don't have 50K in the bank. These are the things that we need to change.
I hate to be hammering on the fact of 3rd world countries, but the fact of the matter is that they are the perfect way to compare and contrast to show these things. Ask yourself, what is a hero? Somebody who does something in a good samaritan way and asks nothing in return. From helping an old man up some stairs or saving a person from drowning. These things are not material and are the most renowned in the country. Sadly, everybody is selfish. We have learned from media that things make us happy, and what everybody wants is happiness, so, since all we know through the majority of everything around us is that things are happiness, we don't see into what the culture truly knows is happiness.
The hero that we talked about earlier, he will ALWAYS remember the time(s) he was a hero, and will always be happy and proud of it, knowing that he helped somebody in a significant way. When someone is angry at him or he loses his job, he will know that he has made a positive impact on the world. Materials, do not offer us this happiness. Whenever we get something material, we become happy, that is nature. However, it does not last for ever. That is because it doesn't affect our emotions as strongly as impacting another being. The person that focuses on helping others may lose his job and be happy, but someone who focuses purely on material, who gets fired, has nothing left. Without money you cannot have material, and since old materials cannot make you happy any more, you have nothing you can do.
The sad fact of this is that our culture has begun to teach everybody that the material life is the happy life. Having all the money, they super car, the massive house on the edge of town, while so few people, who have also been affected by the past world, are able to affect the media and the world in a way that they can get the message of loving happiness to everyone. Materialistic lives have led us to teach others in a much more efficient way of the material life, and has caused the world to be purely competing for the best material. If you have the best than you have nothing to complain about, except for the fact that you cannot be happy because you have nothing to compete for, or gain.
The world needs to change into a heroic world, we, as a first world country need to realize that what we have is not happiness, it is all illusion. I mean, I know that even I am materialistic, and even as I say this I doubt myself, however I know that helping a person for nothing in return truly does make me, and hopefully everyone else much more happy then being able to buy the next latest thing.
Justyn
Now for a short theory about The Evil of Materialism from Arthur Hamilton.
--People like getting things, because it makes them happy, the problem is it only makes them happy for a while, before they get bored of it. For example, if you buy a mercedes then you will be happy, for about a month and a half before it wears and you are used to having it, so it isn't as fun any more. So, in order to counter this lack of happiness.... Everybody has to buy 1 mercedes every single month for the rest of their lives. The evil in this is that everybody will go broke and the country will fall into depression and millions will die..
THE EVILS OF MATERIALISM
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