On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 6:23 PM, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...]
> i don't want to turn silk into flyertalk, but... I usually just toss my miles away, I can't be bothered to keep track of them. Firstly I don't want to fly so much that I will collect obscene amounts of miles, and if I am flying that much in any case, then I am probably sick and tired of the insides of chain hotels and aircrafts, so why would I want to redeem those miles anyway? BTW, I am not saying that hserus or you are obsessive collectors, but I found this article on frequent flyer mile junkies illuminating. http://www.insideflyer.com/articles/article.php?key=2168 [...] Then there is Freud's theory that links obsessive collecting to childhood and the potty-training period. Parents force their children to train their bodies to accommodate a certain schedule, and then the child's output is promptly discarded, suggesting that what they have produced is of no value; in fact, it is abhorrent and needs to be gotten rid of. According to Freud, adult obsessive collectors are merely hoarding things because they were accustomed to things being taken away from them during this potty-training period.
