Ostentation and getting ahead of friends and neighbors become the ideal pattern of behavior. But conspicuous consumption creates only temporary satisfaction. Symptoms of Anomie and alienation are reflected in all aspects of life. In this Materialistic age, most of humanity have become slaves to wealth, fashions, and mansions. I n the realm of Materialism , wealth, bodily satisfaction and sensuous pleasures are either the only, or the greatest values one can attain or seek.
Any Material civilization prides itself on show and parade.
Its votaries scatter monuments for all sorts of things in conspicuous places. Monuments which commemorate deeds and events which are forgotten in a few generations. The principle is that any profit which we should seek should be through our own exertions and at our own expense, not through exploiting other people or at their expense.