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Originally Posted by 21stCenturyAmericanDream
Umm, you missed my point. I'm saying the trends of thought seems to promote not feeling the need to 'move up the food chain'.
I feel the modern American Dream is to forgo big debt for houses and cars and live more within frugal means.
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While several others and I would most certainly agree with your premise, sadly, a still vast
(and possibly growing) swath of humanity exists for nothing more than the insatiable pursuit of material and monetary gain.
For several years now, my mantra has been:
Learning to Live with Less. And truthfully, I am much the happier man for it.
In closing, a thought provoking excerpt from Khalil Gibran:
. . .Your thought instils in your heart arrogance and superiority. Mine plants within me love for peace and the desire for independence. Your thought begets dreams of palaces with furniture of sandalwood studded with jewels,and beds made of twisted silk threads. My thought speaks softly in my ears, “Be clean in body and spirit even if you have nowhere to lay your head.”
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I put this up for Dr. Kaku, not the Zeitgeist movement. 
