There are devastating plagues stalking and slaying vast numbers of human beings right now, but they are enthusiastically embraced. For instance, the bacillus of acquisitiveness has infected so many that practically the entire human race is suffering from the outbreak. An insidious pathological condition called Lifestyle has decimated vast numbers of the population and continues to devour those with poor spiritual immune systems. Lifestyles, on the other hand, are either mass-produced by machines or by people forced to produce repetitively as if they were machines. Living is personal, intimate, and arising naturally out of who we are.
Lifestyles are impersonal, factory-made and arising only out of the motive to make a profit.
They are artificial and ugly replacements for people too busy and too apathetic to even generate their own existence. Lifestyles are imposed from Madison Avenue and have nothing to do with anything but causing victims to fall prey to advertising. Our civilization has traded the nourishing kernel of genuine living for the witless pursuit of bigger and increasingly complex temporary shells. The machinery of the Bubonic Lifestyle is cutting down all the branches of the Tree of Life and tearing it up by the roots. We have forgotten what living even means, and that it is above all an internal subjective affair.