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jewels · 11-27-2008, 04:05 AM

I agree with the posts above about consumerism, but there's something that brought us all to this point. We have to take responsibility for the choices we've made, but what is it that turned us from "free love" and communes to gotta-have-a-Porsche and Dolce & Gabbana?

The banks aren't at fault because they simply responded to demand.

I blame the media, including television marketing, popular TV shows -- the images we've been surrounded by that have slowly evolved from that anti-materialism mindset in the 60s/70s to total materialism twenty years later. If there's planned obsolescence, there's definitely planned materialism. It's a conspiracy, I tell ya

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jewels Eponymous Location: Central Central Florida	I agree with the posts above about consumerism, but there's something that brought us all to this point. We have to take responsibility for the choices we've made, but what is it that turned us from "free love" and communes to gotta-have-a-Porsche and Dolce & Gabbana? The banks aren't at fault because they simply responded to demand. I blame the media, including television marketing, popular TV shows -- the images we've been surrounded by that have slowly evolved from that anti-materialism mindset in the 60s/70s to total materialism twenty years later. If there's planned obsolescence, there's definitely planned materialism. It's a conspiracy, I tell ya __________________ We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess. Mark Twain