Thoughts for Later Elaboration

- A item is good only in so much as to the degree it introduces joy into your life.

- The bringing of joy is only found within the act of experience, and this experience must be driven out of a motivation to experience wonder. If you attempt to experience something without this sense of wonder, you are guaranteed to find tedium at the most essential levels.

- In agrarian societies, articles that would evoke this sense of wonder were quite rare, and had to be produced via the combined effort of dozens of individuals. It was a literal scarcity, which is difficult to understand unless you are forced to experience it.

- Due of the effort required to produce it, the strength of character to produce the art was of incredible magnitude. Thus, those who could appreciate the art were given elevated status of a sort. This is the most fundamental capitalist relationship of supply and demand.

- As the standard of living rose in the west, entertainment has managed to penetrate to lower classes of society: the middle class, or the poor, for example. Because of the lack of effort involved in experiencing entertainment, it is trivial to consume such things without digesting them, the next replacement is easier to obtain.

- However, one need not be of any economic status to learn to appreciate things. And it is in the appreciation of these things that true wealth, happiness, is found.