If, at bottom, our only motives are the gratification of our desires, what does materialism offer us? Immediately, it places certain inner wants outside the realm of possibility. Loves, like friendship, become a means to an end—not the ends themselves—and so, under the lens of materialism, love disappears, replaced by the most base and carnal lusts.
This point should be drawn out. Under the teachings of materialism, the dearest and sweetest element of life, a mother caring for her child, is on a par with the tragedy of the caterpillar acting as a host to parasitic wasps. This is not the position of someone antagonistic to the worldview of materialism, this is one of their own lessons from their own lips. The affection shown the child is merely the result of evolutionary forces. It is the baby taking advantage of the mother. The individual person is just a small particle of these great meaningless waves of matter that we call life.
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