What is economic materialism?
The prevailing culture of a society which embraces ‘economic materialism’, is that the environment is simply a resource to be exploited for personal commercial-equivalent profit, and self-aggrandizement. In such a milieu, human beings perceive themselves to be technologically advanced. However, their attitude to the environment, makes them barbaric, venal, and primitive creatures. Only a truly primitive creature with sentience sentient, that allows for technological sophistication, would threaten its own survival, by destroying their own habitat. Economic materialism, has fostered such a culture of joint primitiveness and sentience where human beings assimilate self-destructive, and essentially egotistical attitudes void of personal and social responsibility to other human beings. A prevailing culture where people compete to create and acquire superficial trappings of materialistic success that they can display and show-off on one another, in the process has created a milieu for on-goi
