A lethal virus currently decimating the populations of some of the world's wealthiest cities...
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/welcome-to-the-selfish-city/2007/02/01/1169919474189.html
Have you got any personal experience or perspective on this malady? What's interesting is that affluenza doesn't attack wealth per se, only a certain attitude towards attaining it.
http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/2891/
"Daniel Ben-Ami
Oliver James' new book: it could f*** you up
In Affluenza, the clinical psychologist argues that money is driving us insane. In fact, he's the one who seems a few cents short of a dollar.
Affluenza: How to be Successful and Stay Sane, Oliver James, Vermilion 2007.
It is a reasonable bet that Oliver James thinks you are mentally ill. The clinical psychologist and media pundit starts his new book with a questionnaire for readers to determine whether they have contracted the ‘affluenza virus’. Among the 16 questions he poses, each of which demands a ‘yes’ or ‘no’ answer, are:
I would like to successfully hide the signs of ageing.
I would like to be admired by many people.
I like to keep up with fashions in hair and clothing.
Shopping or thinking about what to buy greatly preoccupies me.
If you answer ‘yes’ to any one of the questions he declares that, like most people in the English-speaking world, you have contracted the virus. His definition of affluenza is so broad it is hard to see how anyone, apart from perhaps Trappist monks or the Amish, can be immune.
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Originally posted by zeebleboti guess i am not a victim because i answered every question:NO but then again i'm 65 and have reached the age that i don't give a rats arse who thinks of me and i'm sure not a fashion plate. ask my wife.
http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/2891/
"Daniel Ben-Ami
Oliver James' new book: it could f*** you up
In Affluenza, the clinical psychologist argues that money is driving us insane. In fact, he's the one who seems a few cents short of a dollar.
Affluenza: How to be Successful and Stay Sane, Oliver James, Vermilion 2007.
...[text shortened]... s hard to see how anyone, apart from perhaps Trappist monks or the Amish, can be immune.
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Originally posted by zeeblebotApart from the last of the four questionnaire items you quoted, I don't even see any necessary connection to money. Does having an interest in maintaining a fashionable appearance, and being somebody of consequence, imply materialism?
http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/2891/
"Daniel Ben-Ami
Oliver James' new book: it could f*** you up
In Affluenza, the clinical psychologist argues that money is driving us insane. In fact, he's the one who seems a few cents short of a dollar.
Affluenza: How to be Successful and Stay Sane, Oliver James, Vermilion 2007.
...[text shortened]... s hard to see how anyone, apart from perhaps Trappist monks or the Amish, can be immune.
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