Something I heard on CSI - maybe someone can help identify

[zz000ter]

At the end of the CSI episode Laurence Fishburne / Dr. Raymond Langston says something about a philosopher that wrote about the "having orientation" vs " being orientation".

For most of history we have had a "being orientation" but we have now shifted to a having orientation which is manifesting in this materialistic society and the unhappiness we see in it.

Who is the philosopher that Fishburne is referencing?

 

[Thunderballs]

It sounds like he is talking about Erich Fromm's Hoarding Orientation when he refers to a shift to a having orientation. Maybe he is talking about a shift from the Productive Orientation to a Hoarding Orientation? Pretty vague reference though.

 

[cancowboy2001]

Yes it was Erich Fromm - Langston mentioned the name just before he got into the orientation stuff.

A summary of sorts if you are interested (page down about 12 times).
http://www.sonoma.edu/users/d/daniels/frommnotes.html