“The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.”

The drive for endless economic growth, the latest, bleeding edge of technology, the push to consume, always consume; never allowed by the constant barrage of advertising to be happy with ourselves or what we have.

We are neither happy nor truly virtuous if we exist in a constant state of want while living amidst such abundance.  

Is this what the American Dream has become?