Word: materialist
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When Muslims, millions of them living in deepening poverty, contemplate the materialist West, they experience a mixture of repugnance and envy that often resolves itself into militant fundamentalist anger. On the other hand, the West and some of what comes with it (AIDS, drugs, pornography, the destruction of family and community, for example) are in many ways as dangerous and repulsive as a fundamentalist Muslim may believe...
...senior editor at the New Republic, has benign memories of his first experience as a writer for TIME. "The editors were astonishingly tolerant of my stylistic idiosyncrasies," he says. "I had assumed I would be brutalized, but I wasn't." While calling himself "a fairly hard-core scientific materialist," Wright adds, "but I do like to think there is more to this universe than meets the eye." In somewhat the same vein, one admiring critic has described him as "a science writer fighting off a nasty case of existential dread...
Many theorists describe the hegemonic influence of modern mass media. Sociologist and cultural critic Todd Gitlin argues that the structure and content of television programs propagate materialist values and political complacency. Historian Stuart Ewen contends that American industry spreads a consumerist ideology through advertising to maintain the authority of the capitalist mode of production...
...find the situation as funny as he does. There are people who believe that money is an effective buffer against suffering, and on the most basic level of comfortable subsistence, they are correct. But to think that money acts as a buffer for all pain is a simplistic and materialist notion that only reinforces classist myths...
...musings by some physicists on "the anthropic principle"--the idea that life and mind are somehow necessary to the universe. This sort of paradox leads Sheldrake to the radical position that changeless laws do not exist, and he has no use for what he disparagingly calls the "nominalist-materialist school,"--in other words, modern science...