An old post says that I had a Wordsworth quote, but I appear to have deleted it. It went, "rapine, avarice, expense, this is idolatry and these we adore. Plain living and high thinking are no more." I don't know if it's a quote from one of his good poems or his bad poems, but it sounds good to me.
These We Adore would be a good title of a book, even if it's from a bad poem. At worst I think Wordsworth was a little heavy handed.
The bad thing about this is that, well, let me start over. My first car was a 12 year old Lincoln Continental Town Coupé. Someone had to buy it new for 7 or 8 thousand dollars before I could buy it used for 800. By the time I got it new Lincolns were 35 thousand. I don't know what they cost now, but I can find decent used luxury cars for about 25 hundred.
The point is that I don't believe luxury is bad. It is when it's overdone that it becomes evil.
