“If you were on a game show,” Seth says about his two types of people.So you’re the winner of this game show,” Seth says, “and you get a choice between a five-piece living room set from Broyhill, suggested retail price three thousand dollars— or—a ten-day trip to the old world charm of Europe.”
Most people, Seth says, would take the living room set.
“It’s just that people want something to show for their effort,” Seth says. “Like the pharaohs and their pyramids.
Given the choice, very few people would choose the trip even if they already had a nice living room set.”
This is a simple idea i came across in the text. What's the point? People are too materialistic in their nature. Our well-being depends on so many factors like tasty food safety and a comfortable house with lots of devices making life easier that we've already got used to that any advantage is some thing which makes life better somehow. Thing which you can touch and show someone else. And unfortunately we forget that the most important is usually non-material: feelings, emotions, ideas and experience. Like in this fragment we see the experience of the traveller which you could share as well as show your new living-room.
The idea isn't new for Palahniuk. It became one of the central discourses in his famous "Fight Club".
Most people, Seth says, would take the living room set.
“It’s just that people want something to show for their effort,” Seth says. “Like the pharaohs and their pyramids.
Given the choice, very few people would choose the trip even if they already had a nice living room set.”
This is a simple idea i came across in the text. What's the point? People are too materialistic in their nature. Our well-being depends on so many factors like tasty food safety and a comfortable house with lots of devices making life easier that we've already got used to that any advantage is some thing which makes life better somehow. Thing which you can touch and show someone else. And unfortunately we forget that the most important is usually non-material: feelings, emotions, ideas and experience. Like in this fragment we see the experience of the traveller which you could share as well as show your new living-room.
The idea isn't new for Palahniuk. It became one of the central discourses in his famous "Fight Club".
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