In the age of mechanical reproduction, we may have lost our reverence for the sacred power we once imbued in tools, icons and artworks created by the individual human hand – but we have not lost our capacity to invest in material things an equally potent power of personalised narrative.
It's not money and material things like a car," agrees Avril Henry, a human resources management consultant in Rozelle, Australia.
Material things included: a vehicle, the home, a kitchen, stove/oven, pots, pans and dishes, dining table and chairs, outdoor grills, washing machine, other cleaning items (e.g., rags, broom), food, cactus plants, fruit and non-fruit trees, and herbal and medicinal plants.
Or, to un-paraphrase singer Avey Tare: "Don't mean to seem like I care about material things like a social status.
Our third fashion article, "Points of Pride," illustrates that idea with five men who take pride either in material things, like a rare 1958 Cadillac, or the more spiritual, like the devotion of the students in one man's martial arts class.
Hence, if one experience has only sense-data as its objects, and not material things, and a second experience has as its objects something that we cannot discriminate on the basis of introspection from the objects of the first experience, then the second experience also has sense-data rather than material things as its objects.
The overindulgence of material things is a reflection of God's absence in our world.
"Material things have a process of entropy and these immaterial things just change," he adds, comparing physical objects, hardware and analogue media to computer software.
I began to realize that it was not material things or a prominent title at work, but the multitude of life experiences that I have been so fortunate to have.
