I've often felt dissatisfaction with life as an earning potential and that gathering stuff as a life purpose makes life an never ending game of intrigue of who can get the best out of each other.
Agreed, materialism is a pretty empty quest, but I have often contemplated whether it becomes the default for those who haven�t been able to work out how to set their aspirations on something more worthwhile.
I tend to contemplate the value of experience rather then the value of facts and the my subjective opinion is a better guide that reason.
My take is that experience and facts are both important and should complement each other. I agree that personal experiences can and should inform us on how to evaluate new information to incorporate them as �facts� in our understanding of the universe and our place in it.
I think, ideally, we should always be ready and willing to adapt our internal model of reality as new information presents.
