And that's a lot of the reason why we care so much about our careers and indeed start caring so much about material goods. You know, we're often told that we live in very materialistic times, that we're all greedy people. I don't think we are particularly materialistic. I think we live in a society which has simply pegged certain emotional rewards to the acquisition of material goods. It's not the material goods we want;

文学的力量在于它能够将我们与普遍的人类经验联系起来。

宇宙是一个全息图，我们都是这个宏伟宇宙投影的一部分。