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To: Ilaine who wrote (91180)	4/8/2003 11:55:13 AM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (1) of 281500

ehm...excuse me...you do not need a shrink to diagnose suicide. Take a look at suicide rates around the world and correlate it with the country's level of industrialization and material comfort. Your argument is an old, old one. It's the one about the happy natives frolicking in their natural habitat, unspoiled by modern man. I think the Greeks had a similar argument, maybe Plato. To begin with, it was not an argument. You said there is no such thing as a consumerism belief system and I said there is an implicit one. And what if this is an old argument? BTW, I don't think it goes as far back as you say. Jean-Jacques Rousseau was the first I know of who brought it up in full...and no I don't want to discuss Rousseau here. ST

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