Conditioned to Crowds
"The larger the crowds, the smaller our lives. Pliny the Elder once said that the Romans, when they couldn't make the building beautiful, made it big. The practice continues to be popular. If we can't do it well, we make it larger. We add dollars to our income, rooms to our houses, activities to our schedules, appointments to our calendars. And the quality of life diminishes with each addition." - Eugene H. Peterson