Also see President Carter's "Crisis of Confidence" speech: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/carter-crisis/ https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/america

Also see President Carter's "Crisis of Confidence" speech: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/carter-crisis/ https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/carter-... > Human identity is no longer defined by what one does, but by what one owns. But we've discovered that owning things and consuming things does not satisfy our longing for meaning. We've learned that piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose.