Philosophile

It seems to me that quite a bit of people are lost in this sort of perverted illusion about finding the ultimate reality. Some people even devote their entire lives to finding said truth, and waste away quietly with their hands locked in a rigormortis prayer. It's sort of disgusting, if you think about it, but amusing at the same time. For some odd reason, people arn't satisfied with whatever they have, and want more. Don't think that the mystic is any more virtuous than the consumerist. They both want differant things, but they are both driven by the same urge, the same underlying message of "what you have is not good enough."So... why do we do this? I think the answer is quite simple. We are creatures of desire. Without want, we would not get. Without get, we would not survive. Ergo, the ones who want are the ones who survive. But what about the world of today, in which everybody's basic needs are met? The answer is simple... make stuff up. Imagine Maslow's Heiarchy of Needs... now, take everything above the "basic survival requirements" and cross it out. Now write "fabricated" next to it. Beautiful, eh? My point is... just because our desires are met does not mean our desires go away. We just found a nice place to shove all of our angst and called it a "higher power." By doing this, we kill two birds with one stone... 1. A place for our desires, and 2. A nice little boost of our ego.