One would think that after all the Black Friday’s we’ve lived through, people would learn that material things do not satisfy.
But if we ourselves are nothing but matter, live life without purpose, and will one day just cease to exist, then we have nothing to hold on to but matter. For according to this materialistic/naturalistic worldview, there is nothing but matter.
And so we race to the stores, race online, race to find the best deals, race to own the better, the bigger, take it all home, enjoy it for a while and then… Well it all fades away and we go shopping for more!