"Roedy Green" <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> wrote in message 
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> On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 15:23:16 -0700, "h" <f@s.com> wrote, quoted or
> indirectly quoted someone who said :
>
>>      Man is full if he is in tune with the universe; if he is not in tune
>>with the universe then he is empty, utterly empty. And out of that 
>>emptiness
>>comes greed. Greed is to fill it: by money, by houses, by furniture, by
>>friends, by lovers - by anything, because one cannot live as emptiness.
>
> Greed is a GAME.  Your self worth is measured by the quantity of
> money, houses, lovers etc. you have.  People collect more than they
> need, to the point of serious inconvenience to themselves, even to the
> point of cheating and depriving others, even to the point of
> compromising the life support systems of planet earth.
>
> The problem is your relative rather than absolute wealth is the
> measure.  You need more money just because there is someone else with
> more.

I like the way they put it in those lyrics in Pink Floyd's "The Wall":

What shall we use to fill the empty spaces where waves of hunger roar?
Shall we set out across this sea of faces in search of more and more and 
more applause?
Shall we buy a new guitar? Shall we buy a more powerful car? Shall we work 
straight though the night?
Shall we get into fights, leave the lights on, drop bombs, do tours of the 
east, contract disease, bury bones, breakup homes, send flowers by phone, go 
to shrinks, give up meat, rarely sleep, keep people as pets, race dogs, 
train rats, fill the attic with cash, bury treasure, store up leisure, but 
never relax at all...
With our backs to the wall