The Religious Relationship Between Materialism and the Relinquishing of Material Goods

The notion of materialism as a bad thing in terms of positive accumulation of wealth and status through what one owns has a kind of religious, there's a religious route to I think the criticism of that kind of materialism. These kinds of ideas of an ascetic Buddhist giving up of material things that somehow there's a truer spiritual path in the relinquishing of material possessions. And so if you look at the history of consumers and all the history of consumer society, it's a slightly different construction of consumer society. It's very clear that there have been ideological strategies put in place by capitalism to ensure that people are consuming during periods of economic crisis. This moment in the coronavirus pand