Father Jose Pastor Ramirez
Definitively, modern society has institutionalized what I call the spirituality of consumption: almost everything is geared towards enjoying ever new products, services and experiences. In this “spiritual community” of waste, the individual has value because he consumes.
Likewise, another similar power is constituted by fashion, making those who are behind it, a kind of holy men that you go to whenever you want to experience a bit of histrionics in the cathedral of the red carpet. Undoubtedly, the “fashion empire” has become a kind of secular devotion of modern society. Here what matters is to appear and attract attention.
Another feature that marks the modern lifestyle is the seduction of the senses and care for the external. A special cult of the body and slenderness is verified. Limits have been lost.
It must be recognized that, equally, it would be a mistake to “demonize” this society that offers so many possibilities to care for the various dimensions of the human being and to develop a comprehensive and inclusive life. But it would be no less wrong to foolishly allow oneself to be carried away by any fashion or claim, reducing existence to pure material well-being.
The idea that the human being is an animal hungry for pleasure and well-being is projected. Ignoring that he is also destined to cultivate the spirit, to know friendship and tenderness, to be grateful for life, to practice solidarity and to experience the mystery of the transcendent.
This intoxicated world of consumption, pleasure, fashion and the seduction of the senses has spawned the so-called objectophiles. Who fall in love with inanimate things. They feel sexually attracted to objects, they relate it to animism, to a philosophy or to a religion that considers that objects have a soul, intelligence, feeling and that they are capable of communicating. This leads to pleasure, fashion and seduction without limits.
Indeed, the person inclined to objectophilia usually has a traumatic sexual history; this is also a pathology close to paraphilias and fetishism. Undoubtedly, robotics has opened up a world of possibilities for object lovers, since thanks to it the differences between animate and inanimate objects disappear. It must also be recognized that the exorbitant prices of a robbery make them unaffordable for the budgets of people with this disorder. For example, Erika “Aya” Eiffel, world champion archer, stated that she was having an affair with “Lance”, her competition bow. Also, she had an engagement wedding with the Eiffel Tower and changed her last name. Others love their laptop, their car, or their guitar. Establishing, with these objects, an erotic and almost sexual relationship. Therapy with these patients does not always achieve the expected goals. Objectophiles have a predilection for a loved object. Wanting other objects would constitute, for them, an infidelity. At such levels of distortion, consumerism could lead to our affective and emotional ecosystem.