Correct. Western culture is probably the least materialistic of all major cultures (500M+ people).
Re:How to get rich without getting lucky
by stochastic_monk on Friday June 01, 2018 @07:22AM
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It seems to have taken on a literal narcissism in the Snap era.
Narcissism and materialism can be very different things
Re:How to get rich without getting lucky
by stochastic_monk on Friday June 01, 2018 @08:13AM
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I agree. You could even call this flavor a sort of immaterialism, a preoccupation with what isn't actually real.
>Western culture is probably the least materialistic of all major cultures
Is this sarcasm? What are you basing this on? I don't think I've ever heard anyone opine this before.
Probably the Chinese concept of "face".
I wouldn’t call it the least materialistic but capitalist culture is dominant in most of the world now. Honestly I think the lack of materialism in most cultures is largely mythologized. If African tribes measure your wealth by how many animals you have, well, that’s just materialism via other materials and I’m sure leads to its own kinds of conspicuous consumption (invite the whole village to your party for instance).
Religious orders seem to be the easy-to-identify exception and those exist in all the large cultures.
I don't think it's only Western culture that is to blame. Middle Eastern, Indian and Chinese cultures seem to have even more ingrained versions of this core assumption.