Time & Location
27 Dec 2017, 19:30 – 22:00
Rumi's Cave, 26 Willesden Ln, London NW6 7ST, UK
About The Event
President Bush said after 9 / 11 "I urge all Americans to go shopping."
In today's modern society the INDIVIDUAL is the measure of all things. The more one gets the more they want.
Can money and power ever make us happy? How much is enough? Is our constant desire for more is part of our human nature? And what are the common causes of greed? Anxiety, ego, unattainable values?
Some call it a useful dowry of evolution, others a fault in the human genetic make-up: The old mortal sin Greed seems to be more ubiquitous than ever. Why can't people ever get enough, where is this self-indulgence leading - and are there any ways out of this vicious circle of gratification?
"People like to have a lot of stuff because it makes them the feeling of living forever," says American social psychologist Sheldon Solomon, who believes today's materialism and…