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It doesn't seem to make sense to suggest that there might be such a thing as good materialism.

After all, isn't materialism just plain bad, always?

It can seem as if we're faced with a stark choice.

Either you can be materialistic, and that means obsessed with money and possessions, shallow and selfish, or you can reject materialism,

be good and focus on more important matters of the spirit.

But in truth, most of us are, in our hearts, stuck somewhere between these two choices, which is pretty uncomfortable.

We're still enmeshed in the desire to possess, but we're encouraged to feel rather bad about it.

Yet, crucially, it's not actually materialism, the pure fact of buying things and getting excited by possessions, that's ever really the problem.

We're failing to make a clear distinction between good and bad versions of materialism.

Let's try to understand good materialism through a slightly unusual route – religion.

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.

They've spent a lot of time making and thinking about scrolls to hang in your house,

shrines, temples, monasteries, artworks, clothes, ceremonies.

However, they've cared about these things for one reason only

because they've wanted material things to serve the highest and noblest purpose – the development of our souls.

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,

at least in part, through our bodies rather than merely through the intellect.

The importance of material things was for centuries at the core of Christianity

which proposed that Jesus was both the highest spiritual being and a flesh and blood person.

He was the spirit incarnate, holiness embodied.

In the Catholic mass, great significance is accorded to the bread and the wine, which are believed to be transubstantiations of Christ,

that is, material objects which simultaneously have a spiritual identity, just as Jesus himself combined the spiritual and the bodily while on earth.

This can all sound like a very weird and arcane point, entirely removed from the local shopping mall.

But exactly the same concept actually applies outside of religions.

Many good material possessions can be said to involve a kind of transubstantiation, whereby they are both practical and physical,

and also embody or allude to a positive personality or spirit.

Take this watch by the designer Dieter Rams.

To the outer eye, it's an ordinary timepiece, but at a psychological level, it's also a kind of transubstantiation.

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.

It tells us how long there is till lunch, but it's also trying to nudge us towards being a certain sort of person.

Or take this chair.

It, too, transubstantiates a set of important values straightforwardness, strength, honesty and elegance.

By getting closer to the chair we stand to become a little more like it, which is an important piece of inner evolution.

Material objects can therefore be said to play a positive psychological or spiritual role in our lives when higher,

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.

When they're contained in physical things,

valuable psychological qualities that are otherwise often intermittent in our thoughts and conduct can become more stable and resilient.

This isn't to say that all consumerism just conveniently turns out to be great.

It depends on what a given material object stands for.

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.

So, we must be careful not to decry or celebrate all material consumption just like that.

We have to ensure that the objects we invest in

and tire ourselves and the planet by making are those that lend most encouragement to our higher, better natures.

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이 말하기 레슨은 영상 “Are we too Materialistic?”을(를) 바탕으로 합니다. 가장 자주 반복되는 단어는 다음과 같습니다: material, materialism, spiritual, object, psychological. 이 영상에는 섀도잉할 문장 43개와 단어 686개가 있습니다. 말하는 구간의 길이는 4:24입니다. 화자는 분당 약 156단어로, 일상 대화에 가까운 자연스러운 속도로 말합니다. 영어에서 가장 많이 쓰이는 3,000단어에 속하는 단어가 80%뿐이라 어휘가 어려운 편입니다.

이 영상의 핵심 어휘

영상에 나오는 익혀 둘 만한 단어 15개를 발음, 뜻과 함께 정리했습니다.

단어	발음	뜻
spiritual 형용사	/ˈspɪɹɪt͡ʃuəl/	정신적, 정신의
possession 명사	/pəˈzɛʃn̩/	소유물
ideal 형용사	/aɪˈdi(ə)l/	이상적, 리상적
bodily 형용사	/ˈbɑdɪli/	신체적
practical 형용사	/ˈpɹæk.tɪ.kəl/	실질적인
stable 명사	/ˈsteɪ.bəl/	마구간, 축사
encourage 동사	/ɪnˈkʌɹ.ɪd͡ʒ/	격려하다
temple 명사	/ˈtɛm.pl̩/	절, 사찰
plain 명사	/pleɪn/	평지, 평야
ceremony 명사	/ˈsɛɹ.əˌmoʊ.ni/	예식, 의식
designer 명사	/dɪˈzaɪnɚ/	디자이너
ordinary 형용사	/ˈɔɹdɪnɛɹi/	정규의, 보통의
merely 부사	/ˈmɪəli/	한낱, 그저
consumption 명사	/kənˈsʌmp.ʃən/	소비
mall 명사	/mɔːl/	쇼핑 센터

이 영상의 문법

화자가 가장 많이 쓰는 문형을 영상 속 실제 표현과 함께 정리했습니다.

문형	영상 속 표현
현재완료 have/has + 과거분사 — 과거의 일이 지금도 관련이 있을 때	have made · They've spent · they've cared
수동태 be + 과거분사 — 누가 하는지보다 무슨 일이 일어나는지에 초점	is accorded · can be said · be said
관계절 who / which + 절 — 사람이나 사물에 대한 추가 정보	choices, which is · wine, which are

주의할 발음

화자는 they've, we're, isn't 같은 축약형과 약화된 형태를 12번 사용합니다. 들리는 대로 짧게 발음하세요.

“sh”와 “zh” 소리: possession /pəˈzɛʃn̩/, unusual /ʌnˈjuːʒ(u)əl/, evolution /ˌiːvəˈluːʃ(ə)n/, consumption /kənˈsʌmp.ʃən/, flesh /flɛʃ/
긴 단어 — 강세 위치에 주의: psychological /ˌsaɪ.kəˈlɑː.d͡ʒɪ.kl̩/, unusual /ʌnˈjuːʒ(u)əl/, ceremony /ˈsɛɹ.əˌmoʊ.ni/, ordinary /ˈɔɹdɪnɛɹi/, evolution /ˌiːvəˈluːʃ(ə)n/

한국어 화자가 어려워하는 소리:

/f/ — ㅍ(/p/)으로 바꾸지 말고 윗니를 아랫입술에 대기: flesh /flɛʃ/, uncomfortable /ʌnˈkʌm.fɚ.tə.bl̩/, significance /sɪɡˈnɪfɪkəns/, selfish /ˈsɛlf.ɪʃ/, triumph /ˈtɹaɪ̯əmf/
/v/ — ㅂ(/b/)과 구별하기: evolution /ˌiːvəˈluːʃ(ə)n/, invest /ɪnˈvɛst/, involve /ɪnˈvɑlv/, exclusively /ɪkˈskluːsɪvli/, conveniently /kənˈvinjəntli/
/z/ — ㅈ이 아니라 성대를 울리는 /s/: possession /pəˈzɛʃn̩/, designer /dɪˈzaɪnɚ/, possess /pəˈzɛs/, propose /pɹəˈpəʊz/, materialism /məˈtɪɹiəlɪzəm/

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자신의 목소리를 녹음해 원본과 비교하고, spiritual, possession, ideal 같은 단어에 특히 주의합니다.

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