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This 5 page paper provides an overview of the book, focusing on three main points. Ideas concerning helping the poor, and lessening individualism, are discussed. No additional sources cited.
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and in religion. How can there be a world with abject poverty on one hand, and plenty on the other? Certainly, Christians around the world have thought of this, but
they are told by their preachers that money is not evil, it is what one does with it that matters. At the same time, while people are satisfied with such
a suggestion, and some even do volunteer work to help the poor, they continue to buy VCRs, CD players, computers and bicycles and new cars. There is no stopping, even
though the money spent on such frivolous items could go to the poor and make the world a better place. John Kavanaughs (1991) main points in his book are that
compulsive consumerism drives society and actually changes peoples relationships with others, that man becomes alienated in a consumer oriented society so ignores the poor, and finally, that the society has
shut a blind eye to causes, mostly because they are blindsided by money. The three main objectives of the book focus on educating people to understand what materiality can do
to the soul. To Kavanaugh, these things cannot exist simultaneously. In other words, consumerism destroys. One can see that at least his thesis is credible in that it draws on
concepts that many experience on a daily basis. Consumerism has wreaked havoc in American society. For example, consumers are lured into deals on leased cars, cellular phones and other tangible
items that are really consumer goods. Cars are depreciating assets and come with a large price in terms of maintenance and payment. Although people put an inordinate amount of money
into automobiles, others ask if this is necessary. Of course, cars today are made to deteriorate as part of the consumerism paradigm. If cars lasted a long time, people would
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