https://www.shawnconn.com/tags/materialism en https://www.shawnconn.com/quotes/unmet-needs <article role="article" class="quote teaser clearfix"><h2> <a href="https://www.shawnconn.com/quotes/unmet-needs" rel="bookmark"><span>Unmet Needs</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <ul class="links inline list-inline"><li class="node-readmore"><a href="https://www.shawnconn.com/quotes/unmet-needs" rel="tag" title="Unmet Needs" hreflang="en">Read more<span class="visually-hidden"> about Unmet Needs</span></a></li></ul><div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item"><p>People don't need enormous cars; they need admiration and respect. They don't need a constant stream of new clothes; they need to feel that others consider them to be attractive, and they need excitement and variety and beauty. People don't need electronic entertainment; they need something interesting to occupy their minds and emotions. And so forth. Trying to fill real but nonmaterial needs-for identity, community, self esteem, challenge, love, joy-with material things is to set up an unquenchable appetite for false solutions to never-satisfied longings.</p></div> </div> </article> Sun, 27 Nov 2011 22:50:17 +0000 Shawn Conn 101 at https://www.shawnconn.com