Saturday, March 23, 2013

Loving people and using things

Do you love people and use things? Or, is it the other way around? Stuart Schneiderman writes

Having lost the meaning of friendship and having forgotten how to relate to other human beings, we have transferred our love on to things. We are obsessed with electronic gadgets, to the point of creating cults to the Apple computer company. Often we love our cars more than we love our spouses.

What is the appeal of objects? Schneiderman writes

Objects always do as they are told; they never talk back and never hold us to account. Objects are also more reliable than people. We might lose them but they never reject us. Many people feel that this makes objects supremely lovable.

What if you act well toward people, and they do not act well toward you?

If it counts as a consolation, when you act well toward others and others do not act well toward you, you know to a high degree of certainty where the problem lies.

1 comment:

Ryan said...

Yes, rather insightful, and well timed. It seems that we are too often unaware of our love for things, or even that there might be a danger in it.