Consumerism

Consumerism is a social and economic order that is based on the systematic creation and fostering of a desire to purchase goods or services in ever great amounts.
The desire natures of shopping, together with the seductions of advertising, have blurred the boundaries betwen need and greed.
Whether shopping on the streets. in catalogues or on the Internet, there is an insatiable appetite to spend, spend, spend, which sometimes verges on the obscene.
We are swept along on a tide of manic devotion into hypermarkets and shopping malls, those modern day 'cathedrals' of consumerism.