Dan Pink's A Whole New Mind Abundence

Dan Pink's humorous criticism reveals the wasteful abundance that allows America the luxury to seek meaning and purpose thought aesthetics and spiritual means.  This paves the way toward less and less reasonable stuff, by focusing more and more on beauty and purpose.  In the past when most people struggled to survive, they didn't have enough time to go shopping, they had to work sun up to sun down to feed their families. But now we have so much more time and so much more money that the past, when we had the purpose of survival, and the present, where we don't have a purpose, are so different that they cant be compared.  With that lack of purpose Americans try to fill that hole with designer things that focus on R-Side thinking, and say those designer things have the purpose we are striving to find.  One of the worst parts about the present compared to the past, is the shopping centers like Potomac Yards, where you would think it would be so remarkable and memeberale that everyone would be in awe at the huge abundance of everything. And the really funny thing is, its not.  Everything has become so huge and abundant in American that it is so utterly unremarkable that most people don't even notice what it is, in and of itself.  Most people are too busy with their search for purpose in this world of pure abundance that they don't appreciate, or notice, what it really is.  What I'm trying to say is that with all the stuff we have people don't take the time to smell the roses on their search for something more.