Consumption

"Never before have we been faced with more choices, but never before have the great society-shaping institutions offered less guidance on why we should choose this way rather than that.  The great metaphors of our time-- the supermarket, cable, and satellite television and the Internet-- put before us a seemingly endless range of options, each offering the great deal, the best buy, the highest specification, the lowest price.  But consumption is a poor candidate for salvation."  ~Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, in The Dignity of Difference:  How to Avoid the Clash of Civilizations ©2002