'The glamorous life'

In the 80s there was a hit song by Sheila E., that went:

She wants to lead the glamorous life

She don’t need a man’s touch

She wants to lead the glamorous life

But without love, it ain’t much

The song describes the lady wearing a mink fur coat and driving a Mercedes Benz car. It is about materialism. Materialism = glamour.

That is what the message was in 1980s America. That was society’s message.

The movies, the music, the television shows, that is what we saw and that was our aim, our goal.

I had no idea what a sham it was. None of us did.

Here I am all these years later, living in Judea, a c...