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It doesn't seem to make sense to suggest that there might be such a thing as good materialism.
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After all, isn't materialism just plain bad, always?
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It can seem as if we're faced with a stark choice.
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Either you can be materialistic, and that means obsessed with money and possessions, shallow and selfish, or you can reject materialism,
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be good and focus on more important matters of the spirit.
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But in truth, most of us are, in our hearts, stuck somewhere between these two choices, which is pretty uncomfortable.
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We're still enmeshed in the desire to possess, but we're encouraged to feel rather bad about it.
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Yet, crucially, it's not actually materialism, the pure fact of buying things and getting excited by possessions, that's ever really the problem.
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We're failing to make a clear distinction between good and bad versions of materialism.
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Let's try to understand good materialism through a slightly unusual route – religion.
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Because we see them as focused exclusively on spiritual things, it can be surprising to note how much use religions have made of material things.
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They've spent a lot of time making and thinking about scrolls to hang in your house,
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shrines, temples, monasteries, artworks, clothes, ceremonies.
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However, they've cared about these things for one reason only
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because they've wanted material things to serve the highest and noblest purpose – the development of our souls.
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It's just that they've recognised that we are incarnate, sensory, bodily beings and that the way to get through to our souls has to be,
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at least in part, through our bodies rather than merely through the intellect.
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The importance of material things was for centuries at the core of Christianity
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which proposed that Jesus was both the highest spiritual being and a flesh and blood person.
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He was the spirit incarnate, holiness embodied.
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In the Catholic mass, great significance is accorded to the bread and the wine, which are believed to be transubstantiations of Christ,
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that is, material objects which simultaneously have a spiritual identity, just as Jesus himself combined the spiritual and the bodily while on earth.
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This can all sound like a very weird and arcane point, entirely removed from the local shopping mall.
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But exactly the same concept actually applies outside of religions.
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Many good material possessions can be said to involve a kind of transubstantiation, whereby they are both practical and physical,
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and also embody or allude to a positive personality or spirit.
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Take this watch by the designer Dieter Rams.
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To the outer eye, it's an ordinary timepiece, but at a psychological level, it's also a kind of transubstantiation.
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It tells the time, but it also hints at a more psychological or even spiritual side, with ideals of purity, simplicity and harmony floating around it.
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It tells us how long there is till lunch, but it's also trying to nudge us towards being a certain sort of person.
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Or take this chair.
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It, too, transubstantiates a set of important values straightforwardness, strength, honesty and elegance.
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By getting closer to the chair we stand to become a little more like it, which is an important piece of inner evolution.
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Material objects can therefore be said to play a positive psychological or spiritual role in our lives when higher,
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more positive ideals are materialized in them, and so when buying and using them daily gives us a chance to get closer to our better selves.
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When they're contained in physical things,
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valuable psychological qualities that are otherwise often intermittent in our thoughts and conduct can become more stable and resilient.
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This isn't to say that all consumerism just conveniently turns out to be great.
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It depends on what a given material object stands for.
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An object can transubstantiate the very worst sides of human nature, greed, callousness, the desire to triumph, as much as it can the best sides.
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So, we must be careful not to decry or celebrate all material consumption just like that.
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We have to ensure that the objects we invest in
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and tire ourselves and the planet by making are those that lend most encouragement to our higher, better natures.
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Vocabulaire et conseils d’expression pour cette leçon
Cette leçon d’expression orale s’appuie sur la vidéo « Are we too Materialistic? ». Les mots qui reviennent le plus souvent : material, materialism, spiritual, object, psychological. Cette vidéo contient 43 phrases et 686 mots à répéter en shadowing. La partie parlée dure 4:24. Le locuteur parle à un rythme naturel d’environ 156 mots par minute, proche d’une conversation courante. Seuls 80 % des mots font partie des 3 000 mots les plus courants en anglais, le vocabulaire est donc exigeant.
Vocabulaire clé de cette vidéo
15 mots de la vidéo à retenir, avec leur prononciation et leur sens :
| Mot | Prononciation | Sens |
|---|---|---|
| spiritual adjectif | /ˈspɪɹɪt͡ʃuəl/ | spirituel |
| psychological adjectif | /ˌsaɪ.kəˈlɑː.d͡ʒɪ.kl̩/ | psychologique |
| possession nom | /pəˈzɛʃn̩/ | possession |
| ideal adjectif | /aɪˈdi(ə)l/ | idéal |
| bodily adjectif | /ˈbɑdɪli/ | corporel |
| practical adjectif | /ˈpɹæk.tɪ.kəl/ | pratique |
| stable nom | /ˈsteɪ.bəl/ | étable, écurie |
| encourage verbe | /ɪnˈkʌɹ.ɪd͡ʒ/ | encourager |
| temple nom | /ˈtɛm.pl̩/ | temple |
| unusual adjectif | /ʌnˈjuːʒ(u)əl/ | inhabituel, insolite |
| plain nom | /pleɪn/ | plaine |
| ceremony nom | /ˈsɛɹ.əˌmoʊ.ni/ | cérémonie |
| designer nom | /dɪˈzaɪnɚ/ | designer, styliste |
| ordinary adjectif | /ˈɔɹdɪnɛɹi/ | ordinaire |
| evolution nom | /ˌiːvəˈluːʃ(ə)n/ | évolution |
La grammaire de cette vidéo
Les structures que le locuteur utilise le plus, avec les mots exacts de la vidéo :
| Structure | Dans la vidéo |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + participe passé — une action passée qui compte encore maintenant | have made · They've spent · they've cared |
| Voix passive be + participe passé — l’accent est mis sur ce qui arrive, pas sur qui le fait | is accorded · can be said · be said |
| Propositions relatives who / which + proposition — une précision sur une personne ou une chose | choices, which is · wine, which are |
Prononciation à surveiller
Le locuteur utilise 12 contractions et formes réduites, comme they've, we're, isn't. Prononcez-les sous leur forme courte, telles que vous les entendez.
- Les sons « sh » et « zh »: possession /pəˈzɛʃn̩/, unusual /ʌnˈjuːʒ(u)əl/, evolution /ˌiːvəˈluːʃ(ə)n/, consumption /kənˈsʌmp.ʃən/, flesh /flɛʃ/
- Mots longs — placez bien l’accent: psychological /ˌsaɪ.kəˈlɑː.d͡ʒɪ.kl̩/, unusual /ʌnˈjuːʒ(u)əl/, ceremony /ˈsɛɹ.əˌmoʊ.ni/, ordinary /ˈɔɹdɪnɛɹi/, evolution /ˌiːvəˈluːʃ(ə)n/
Les sons difficiles pour les francophones :
- /h/ — il se souffle, il n’est pas muet: harmony /ˈhɑ̟ɹ.mə.ni/, hint /hɪnt/, holiness /ˈhoʊlinəs/
- /tʃ/ et /dʒ/ — à ne pas adoucir en « ch » et « j »: spiritual /ˈspɪɹɪt͡ʃuəl/, psychological /ˌsaɪ.kəˈlɑː.d͡ʒɪ.kl̩/, encourage /ɪnˈkʌɹ.ɪd͡ʒ/, encouragement [ɪnˈkʌɹɪd͡ʒmənt], nudge /nʌd͡ʒ/
- /r/ anglais — langue recourbée, sans frotter la gorge: spiritual /ˈspɪɹɪt͡ʃuəl/, practical /ˈpɹæk.tɪ.kəl/, encourage /ɪnˈkʌɹ.ɪd͡ʒ/, ceremony /ˈsɛɹ.əˌmoʊ.ni/, ordinary /ˈɔɹdɪnɛɹi/
Comment s’entraîner avec cette vidéo
- Écoutez la vidéo en entier une fois sans parler et notez les mots que vous ne connaissez pas.
- Commencez à la vitesse 0,75×, répétez phrase par phrase, puis revenez à la vitesse normale quand cela devient facile.
- Enregistrez-vous et comparez avec l’original, en faisant attention à des mots comme spiritual, psychological, possession.
Qu'est-ce que la technique du Shadowing ?
Le Shadowing est une technique d'apprentissage des langues fondée sur la science, développée à l'origine pour la formation des interprètes professionnels. Le principe est simple mais puissant : vous écoutez de l'anglais natif et le répétez immédiatement à voix haute — comme une ombre suivant le locuteur avec un décalage de 1 à 2 secondes. Les recherches montrent une amélioration significative de la précision de la prononciation, de l'intonation, du rythme, des liaisons, de la compréhension orale et de la fluidité.