Materialism is the number one philosophy in the western world. It is contrasted by spirituality or morality. More of one thing means less of another. With the rise of materialism comes the decline of morality.

Christmas is a good example of materialism overshadowing moral values. Many sheeple parents in the western world systematically lie to their own children in the name of a tradition they don't really believe in, let alone understand, and which is supposed to have high moral values. Instead of learning moral values these children learn that their own parents lie to them, and they learn how to lie to their own future children. Many parents defend their lies by trying to make themselves believe that they have "good intentions". The road to hell is paved with "good intentions".* By keeping this corrupt tradition alive they support the materialistic system imposed on them by the power elite who of course make profit by it. Christmas has become a symbol of consumerism and materialism.

C. Wright Mills - The Power Elite For all of the possible values of human society, one and only one is truly sovereign, truly universal, truly sound, truly and completely acceptable goal of man in America. That goal is money...

In 1971 around 50% of American students said that "to make more money" was one of the main reasons for going to college. In 1998 that rose to 75%.** In 2014 it rose to 90%.** This goes for most young people in the world, "to make more money" outranks any other reason. At the same time, many American students can't afford to attend their first choice college or university.** The annual tuition for a college or university costs between 11,000 and 78,000 USD, depending on in-state or out-state, and public or private. In addition costs like housing, food, health insurance, and more, amount to 19,000 to 34,000 per year.** That means that studying is for rich kids, while poor kids will have to do with less. Also, the average student loan debt after college or university is around 40,000 USD.** Of course students from rich families have less debt, but students from poor families will have more debt because they depend more on loans.

C. Wright Mills - The Power Elite Wealth not only tends to perpetuate itself, but... tends also to monopolize new opportunities for getting 'great wealth.' ... The accumulation of advantages at the very top parallels the vicious cycle of poverty at the very bottom.

One cannot be rich unless others are relatively poor. The rich get richer while the rest suffers the consequences. In 2014 the group of millionaires numbering less than 1% of all adults owned 44% of global wealth.* In 2016 Newsweek reported that 62 people held more wealth than half the world's population combined in 2015; that number was 388 people in 2010.** In 2017 the world’s eight richest billionaires controlled the same wealth between them as the poorest half of the globe’s population.** And then we're not even talking about the trillionaires who have the power to stay behind the scenes. The facts speak for themselves. Poor people don't have enough money, but rich people never have enough either.** Psychologist Ashley Whillans calls it a toxic money mindset.** For poor people it is need, for rich people it is greed, the insatiable desire for material gain. Shirley Chisholm said: When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.* People high on materialism are more likely to engage in unethical business behaviors and manipulate people for their own purposes.** Power corrupts.

Stefanie de Laat - Are we caught up in an endless cycle of acquiring things in search of happiness? The positive effect of both materialism as well as greed on subjective well-being might be short term. It is suggested that on long term materialistic and greedy people experience lower levels of subjective well-being or which doesn't lead to an increase in happiness.

Materialism is negatively associated with life satisfaction.** There is a correlation between socioeconomic status and health. High levels of inequality in wealth and income produce greater levels of unhappiness.** Major depression is the number 1 psychological disorder in the western world.** Materialism and greed are destructive for the planet and human well-being, but they are rampant in this immoral world.


Money is god in a materialistic world. The one dollar bill contains the phrase In God We Trust. Money is power and this is nicely symbolized by the Egyptian pyramid, which is a symbol of power and religious beliefs.** The Eye of Providence, or the all-seeing eye of God, on top of the pyramid of power, symbolizes divine providence, or God watching over humanity.* Above the Eye of Providence is written Annuit Cœptis which can be translated as "Providence favors our undertakings" or "God approves our undertakings".** Underneath the pyramid is written Novus Ordo Seclorum which means "new order of the ages".** It may be a reference to the so-called New World Order which the mainstream media, owned and controlled by the power elite themselves, label a conspiracy theory. The human power hierarchy is often depicted by a pyramid with towards the top the people with most power...


The all-seeing eye is also a symbol used in freemasonry. Secret orders or societies often maintain a power structure represented by a pyramid shape, the closer to the top the closer to the god imagined.** Symbols have a meaning and they are not there by accident, but by design. Interestingly, 14 presidents of the United States were Freemasons.** There's also a long list of monarchs who were freemasons.** Just goes to show that these societies are not to be regarded as insignificant. What is safe to say is that the pyramid symbolizes power. That it is depicted on the one dollar bill nicely coincides with the given that money is power. The eye of god nicely coincides with the given that money is god in this extremely materialistic world.