... "you girls should make him work for it," yet don't work for him yourself.
... we need pills to fall asleep, we need pills to be happy, and we need pills to assist our digestive systems. Even if you require none of the above, the fact that they are available says something about our weaknesses.
... we play life like a game of Monopoly, looking to acquire the whole board and avoid jail-time, only to realize that, in the very end, everything has to go back in the box; back to being meaningless inanimate objects until the next player sits down to the board and looks to win by full acquisition, only to end up following the pattern and putting it all back in the box once they are done with it.
... people care more for how they look than they do about the people in their lives.
... we are incredibly protective of our material possessions, yet more than willing to remove 'undesirables' from our lives without a second thought.
... what we have is never enough.
... we go on shopping sprees just for the fun of it, yet neglect to realize that every purchase is like pulling a trigger to assist the gears of a destructive cycle which creates vast amounts of waste so we can purchase useless clothing articles, pieces of plastic, virtual worlds, or candy.
... we waste our time watching hours upon hours of anime, cartoons, sitcoms, dramas, or movies simply because we enjoy such vegetative states; it either says something ill of the individual, or it says something ill of society if people feel compelled to waste their finite time on the planet like so.
... there is such a thing as 'planned obsolescence,' in which products are designed to break so company's can profit from our buying replacements or upgrades.
... things cost astronomically more to buy than they do to make.
... things cost astronomically less to buy than they do to make.
... we'd prefer to be ignorant.
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