Peter Mommsen: Susannah, I’m sure you desired to express the next section of that it book on the detachment and you will attachment.

Gosh, you may need to help me out since I can not contemplate exactly. Nevertheless earliest argument is that we feel one to consumerism are from the attachment in order to one thing and therefore …

William Cavanaugh: It is materialism. Exactly. We are excessively attached to things therefore need be detached of anything. And that i dispute the opposite, you to in reality, individual culture has to do with detachment. And it is withdrawal from facts. It is withdrawal away from creation, and its particular withdrawal off companies. Items in the feeling one to the audience is constantly advised to not feel also connected with some thing. I cannot get too attached to the iphone 3gs that people has while the 2nd type is on its way collectively in another 6 months, therefore surely got to have the brand new one. Thus the audience is constantly encouraged to keep the focus progressing so you can the next thing. Since if we really had linked to our issues, this may be wouldn’t be most winning. We constantly need to want next thing …

William Cavanaugh: Yeah

William Cavanaugh: Precisely. (more…)