Consumerism, that evil denounced by lefties, Popes, and communists. Supposedly too much love for consumer products, like cars, nice houses, color TV, clothing, laptops, i-pod-pad-phone, that sort of stuff. True believers are supposed to love hair shirts, poverty, raising their own vegetables.
So I'm watching a late night movie on TV, the cheapy kind where you get ten minutes of movie followed by ten minutes of commercials. Funny thing, few to none of those irritating commercials were pushing consumer products. Lots of ads for pills and medicine, nearly as many ads from lawyers looking for plaintiffs so they can sue pill companies, ads for fast food, insurance, financial deals and credit cards, just one ad for cars (Honda). Those ads ain't pushing consumer products, at least not the kind of consumer products that I could get into buying. I suppose fast food does get consumed, but can you imagine the reaction of your kid after you gave him/her a happy meal as a Christmas gift?
Consumerism is pretty much a spent force here in the US. Which might account for why the economy sucks, low demand for consumer goods.
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