Consumerism, Financial Systems and the Future

There are a lot of debates over the state of the economy at the moment, especially concerning the financial situation of the world at present.  People are focusing a lot on the issue of consumerism, especially when it links to over indulgence with money, whether it is relating to large businesses and profits, or to the everyday spending of each individual in general.  Perhaps our economic situation is produced out of our over consumerist nature or maybe it is a step in our own evolution of mind and material understanding? 

We eat away at the resources provided to us, making products that seem to have no relevance to real needs for life, overindulging in life and what it has to offer.  Meanwhile a great portion of the world is suffering in poverty and cannot even afford to buy food and clothing, let alone to think about how they would want to decorate their home, or how they look when it comes to the public eye.  There seems to be no consistency or order when it comes to life, why is this so?

In this article I want to discuss some of the important issues to take into consideration relating to consumerism, especially concerning our current situation and what we need to think about for the future.  A lot of people freak out when they are faced with crisis, which mostly forms from an inability to accept change and know that it is a valuable stepping stone towards a future that may well offer a more balanced lifestyle.  However when crisis hits people instead immediately jump into the air, fingers pointed in blame towards all that they find inconsistent in life.  Instead of dealing with change and the knowledge that life will always face hurdles and new challenges, people want to find reason in everything for the struggles that they are facing, whether or not they are linked to their own problems or not. 

Most people do not accept change or challenge.  They seek instead a life of sublime balance.  However, what they forget to take into consideration is that once there life becomes then comfortable, they then get bored and most often seek to find something more to experience.  This relates very much to our state of mind.  We seek continually to better our circumstances in life, yet when we reach this, we then want for more and more.  What makes us this way in nature, and how does this affect the current state of our world when it comes to consumerism and the future?