What account, then, can a semiotic give of the paradoxical impoverishments and enrichments of the self in the present age?  \n\n Why do people often feel bad in good environments and good in bad environments?  Why did Mother Teresa think that affluent Westerners often seemed poorer than the Calcutta poor, the poorest of the poor?\n\n The paradox comes to pass because the impoverishments and enrichments of a self in a world are not necessarily the same as the impoverishments and enrichments of an organism in an environment.'

• self
• semiotics
• environment
• poor