The most exciting part of each day would be choosing whether to get Thai food or Jamaican food for lunch.

Instead, I have met too many people who suffer from an empty self. They have a bottomless pit where their identity should be - an inner void they try to fill with competitive success, consumerism, sexism, racism, or anything that might give them the illusion of being better than others.

(How to fix a hole?)

There's an emptiness inside, isn't there? And when the emptiness surfaces, what do you do? You run away, turn on the television, turn on the radio, read a book, search for human company, seek entertainment, seek distraction. Everybody does that. It's big business nowadays, an organized industry to distract us and entertain us.

In contrast to physiological needs, such as hunger, that have definite satiation points due to the physiology of the body, mental greed - and all greed is mental, even if it is satisfied via the body - has no satiation point, since its consummation does not fill the inner emptiness, boredom, loneliness, and depression it is meant to overcome.