The purpose of C.S.I.

I was totes watching C.S.I. Las Vegas with my mom tonight. The episode was about a lady who had a hoarding problem. She, of course, had about a bazillion dead bodies in her house, but that's not the point. At the end of the episode, Ray Langston... or should I say excellent writers of C.S.I., gave the most excellent speech about our society and our desire to be possessive. I copied it down below!!


"The philosopher Erich Fromm, he forecast a society that was obsessed with possessions. He believed that human beings had two basic orientations: "having" and "being". Now, a person with a "having" orientation seeks to acquire and possess things, property, even people... But a person with a "being" orientation focuses on the experience. They derive meaning from exchanging, engaging, and sharing with other people. 
Unfortunately, Fromm also predicted that a culture driven by commercialism, like the one we live in today, is doomed to the "having" orientation, which leads to dissatisfaction and emptiness. When you consider that in 1960 there was no such thing as public storage in America. Today, there is over 2 billion square feet dedicated to it. Makes you think you got a point."


It's kind of frustrating that we focus on materialistic things. Our society is based on "stuff". We need the nicest clothes and the biggest houses. We'll never be satisfied. There will always be something missing. So does it matter? I mean... will we have these "things" in 40 years? Will they matter to us then? What do we focus on now? What do we make out idols?

Something to think about.