... , whose words profoundly echo the current problems facing modern society with respect to our obsession with materialism (page 45/46): "A lot of young people try to impress the world and buy too many things," the doorman said "A lot of young people don't know what they really want." "If you don't know what you really want you end up with a lot you ... all of that "baggage" is gone, and that Jack is better off without all of his "stuff". He explains (page 44): You buy furniture. You tell yourself this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple of years yo...

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... doorman, whose words reinforce this reoccurring theme in the story of materialism, approaches Jack after his condo explodes. He states, "A lot of young people try to impress the world and buy too many things A lot of young people don't know what they really want If you don't know what you really want you end up with a lot you don't." This is ... got cleaner if they washed them at that spot It was right to kill those people You have to see how the first soap was made of heroes think about animals in product testing. Think about the monkeys shot into space. Without their pain and sacrific...

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