The tyranny of trinkets

A friend, also a writer, talks about the tyranny of choice as a modern ill. Where once our lives were circumscribed by class, religion, wealth or politics, now our mobility, our access to cheap goods and aspirational advertising appears to make everything possible, and if not possible then at least tangible. Only the sheer plethora of offers and enticements, desires and needs, leaves us in a limbo, paralysed by too much information and too many options to process.

Of course, he may only have been talking about writing a book.