 that with all of the new gadgets and all of the new things and the safety and the security and the comfort we have in this United States, we become less than human to the suffering in the rest of the world. We shut off a part of our humanity to the rest of the world. The other part of being brutalized by affluence is our chase for affluence. So not only do we shut off part of ourselves to the suffering, but we become preoccupied with pursuing affluence.