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With so much, we have so little
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In our interconnected world, we find ourselves disconnected from each other. With so many means of communication, we find ourselves not being able to communicate with each other. With so much power, we find ourselves impotent. With so much freedom, we find ourselves in slavery. With so much entertainment, we find ourselves bored. With so many things we can do, we find ourselves stressed-out. With so much noise, we cannot stand silence. With so many screens flashing, we cannot close our eyes and contemplate. With so much diversity and dynamism, we find ourselves marching lock-step to the same rhyme and rhythm. With so many styles of fashion, we find ourselves all dressing in blue jeans and t-shirts. With so much wealth and riches, we find ourselves poor and pathetic. With so much information at our fingertips, we find ourselves so uninformed and so gullible to believe everything on the internet. With life moving so fast and furious, we find it so hard to slow down and enjoy it. ...
Advertising promises happiness; yet we are plagued with bad decisions, anxiety, stress, dissatisfaction, even to clinical depression
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Prudent production and cautious consumption
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Producers produce without restraint and consumers consume without restraint. The unrestrained producer and consumer participate in frenetic intemperance by gratifying their disordered passions of producing and consuming impulsively. Producers seek to throw off the legitimate restraints of keeping demand within limits, and consumers seek to throw off the legitimate restraints of living within one’s own means. Supersize-production brings about supersize-consumption which causes supersize-debt. Prudently produce and cautiously consume.
August 15, 2026: Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
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