"Greed or gluttony...

"... that's what Marxism is all about, that and stealing other people's ideas and inventions and telling everyone that they're yours and signing on. Marx suffered  from both. Read Marx's Capital. Ity all written by other people. No German ever came up with anything original or Jew either..."

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Perhaps,for me,the high-point of modernism was reached between 1979 and 2003. I was high on German consumerism and British tobacco as are many wasted people of my generation. 

The big picture

Consumerism is a phase marking the industrial and economic decline of countries and states past their best. 

That economic stage of rise and fall is announced in Britain by both talking of belt-tightening and government talk of pump-priming and boosting the economy.

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Resources no matter how seemingly endless are like earthly existence ultimately finite. 

I am not a trained ethical guide but I believe that,from a personal conviction,that the Western way of life should be guided by a spirit of modest adequacy and anti-consumerism and a rejection of gluttony

That is the good fight of all civilization,both a rejection of Mr. Scrooge and consumerism.