What do you really need?

"When economic necessity yields to the necessity for limitless economic development, the satisfaction of basic and generally recognized human needs gives way to an uniterrupted fabrication of pseudo-needs."
-- Guy Debord

"Today men seek the kind of approval that applauds not their actions but their personal attributes. They wish to be not so much esteemed as admired. They crave not fame but the glamour and excitement of celebrity. They want to be envied rather than respected."
-- Christopher Lasch