So very true about marketing. Even if we aren't (admitting being) influenced directly, yet we must have at least close to what everyone else is having.
I haven't really read the texts of this Finnish thinker,
Pentti Linkola, but I read an article, where he condemned the consumerism. He says simple life is enough and we should abandon technology. We don't need to fly to exotic countries - just to experience something different, it's enough for him to row to an island nearby and eat some blueberries.
Well, he's considered very extreme, but is this what we need? Extreme ideas.
Seems like there might be no other option than a big disaster that enforces us to change our life style radically.
I know I am too self-indulgent to go as far as I could living simply.