Desire is a relation to being to lack. The lack is the lack of being properly speaking. It is not the lack of this or that, but lack of being whereby the being exists. ——Jacques‐Marie‐Émile Lacan
Solid interviewing, concise analysis. Consumerism is nothing but manufactured, by corporations big or small lusting for 'success' and profit. Consumerism has hollowed out people's minds and lives. There is no greater meaning than owning. There is no greater identity than being a consumer. The vast spreading and normalisation of consumerism may well be one of the most fundamental problems of capitalist modernity.