Buddhism and the Mechanics of Desire

Buddhism offers in splendid detail is an understanding of the mechanics of desire. Once you see how desiring creates suffering and when you get the object of your desire it doesn't satiate desire it just creates more desire. The more you try to satisfy those desires the more the desires themselves proliferate. So that's one way in which Buddhism and what it can promote and allow you to cultivate within yourself comes head-to-head with a fundamental feature of capitalism - marketing and advertisement. If the Buddha were alive today I've no doubt there be various sutras on capitalist advertising yeah absolutely definitely"