All-consuming contemporary forms of worship

Interesting piece from Giles Fraser, as ever, in today's Guardian:

'In a brilliant speech to students, the American novelist David Foster Wallace, who took his own life four years ago this month after struggling with depression, did a brilliant job of exposing the nightmare of any reality that is determined by our own desire. "There is no such thing as atheism," he writes, because we all worship something. "If you worship money, you will never have enough. Worship your own body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly. Worship power – you will feel weak and afraid. Worship your intellect, you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge of being found out." These are ultimately forms of worship that eat us alive and they are forms of worship that are so much more prevalent and all-consuming in a world that has the technology to make reality all about me.'

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Bill Fay - City Of Dreams.