The Value Of Other People

In A Consumer Society, People Wallow In Things, Fascinating, Enjoyable Things. If You Define Your Value By The Things You Acquire And Surround Yourself With, Being Excluded Is Humiliating.

The Task Is To Keep The Lost Opportunities Of The Past Alive.

The Consumerist Culture Insists That Swearing Eternal Loyalty To Anything And Anybody Is Imprudent, Since In This World New Glittering Opportunities Crop Up Daily.

Now People Are Worried Not About The Prospects Of Buying New Things, But About How To Pay For The Things They Bought Yesterday, A Year Ago Or Years Before. It Is, As Americans Like To Say, "a Wholly Different Kind Of Ball-game".

Everybody Is In Trouble, Including The Up-and-coming Economic Miracles Of China, Brazil Or India.