Definition
Consumer research typically looks at materialism in two ways. One as a collection of personality traits and one as an enduring belief or value.
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“Was man made stupid to see his own stupidity?
Is God by definition indifferent, beyond us all?
Is the eternal truth man’s fighting soul
Wherein the Beast ravens in its own avidity?”
—Richard Eberhart (b. 1904)
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