Wasn't preachy, made sense to me :). Thanks for it, I've had lots of vague thoughts swirling around about this. Perhaps we become who we are through what we pu

Wasn't preachy, made sense to me :). Thanks for it, I've had lots of vague thoughts swirling around about this. Perhaps we become who we are through what we pursue. So if we never wade beyond the tide of 'low' goals pushed upon us by that glowing box, we end up the simplistic people you mention above (good teeth etc.). But do we have an innate identity that's being supplanted by consumerism, or are these just the easiest, most available goals, and so we create our identity from these shallow things? So perhaps it's less that this shallow self-knowledge is externally imposed over our innate deep self-knowledge, and more that we're simply shallow people because we've set shallow goals. Maybe we realize our potential and develop that 'real' identity by looking up, aiming higher...