http://blog.teledyn.com/node/2544 Comments for "The Ego Antidote for Materialism" en http://blog.teledyn.com/node/2544 <p><a href="http://www.jpgr.co.uk/pas10006.html"><img src="http://www.jpgr.co.uk/pas10006_e.jpg" class="right"/></a>Y'know, folks called me 'arrogant' just 'cause I insisted on being called Ras-G, and for my just assuming the Universe had been created for my soul personal amusement. Now, as it turns out, nothing of the sort, I was simply ecologically ahead of the Darwinian Adaptation Curve for niche-living in a Material World:</p> <blockquote><p><cite class="blog-source">"In the first study, they found that materialism increases from middle childhood (8 and 9 years old) to early adolescence (12 and 13 years old) but then declines by the end of high school ... This mirrors patterns in self-esteem, which instead decreases in early adolescence but increases in late adolescence ...<br/></p> http://blog.teledyn.com/node/2544#comments there are verses about this Mon, 26 Nov 2007 10:45:47 -0500 mrG 2544 at http://blog.teledyn.com