Exploring the intersection of consumerism and spirituality, Nathaniel characterizes the new and widespread orientation of encounter and how this orientation can lead to confusion and destruction when we don’t recognize where it is justified. This new sensitivity for the human being brings with it a destructive potential when comes to consumerism. He suggests by seeking self-expression through consumerism a misplaced spiritual orientation is at work, one connected with a wasteful economy, the lack of meaning and lack of connection with the natural world. At the same time through understanding the pictorial nature at work in this new culture we can develop a sensitivity for the inexhaustible dimension of culture, relationships and the spirit. References:Epp, Charles R. The Rights Revolution: Lawyers, Activists, and Supreme Courts in Comparative Perspective. University of Chicago Press, 2020.McKibben, Bill. The Bill McKibben Reader: Pieces from an Active Life. St. Martin’s Publishing Group, 2008.Schumacher, E. F. Small Is Beautiful: Economics as If People Mattered. HarperCollins, 2010.Steiner, Rudolf. The Life, Nature and Cultivation of Anthroposophy: Letters to the Members, Volume I, 1924. Anthroposophical Society of Great Britain, 1963.Taylor, Charles. Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity. Cambridge University Press, 1992.https://www.adbusters.org/Questions of Courage is a project of the Youth Section at the Goetheanum, in collaboration with Goetheanum TV. To support the Youth Section Global Access Fund, please visit: https://www.goetheanum.org/en/youth-donations

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