The Dangers Of Consumerism

1. The mental health issue that society as a whole appears to be drowning in today is consumerism. With the ongoing impulse to gain knowledge and have unlimited growth, acquire and fulfill our visions and ambitions of becoming more, with additional wants and this is only natural.

2. Having dealt with the significant dangers to our being, the two attentions individuals have turned their awareness towards are their social standing and sexual appeal. Publicizing turns into a method for opening up these fixations by demonstrating to the buyers proper methodologies to draw in and allure a sexual partner, once acquiring and wearing particular clothes or driving extravagant cars. These products help utilize social power, by gaining perceived authority

Consumers are being influenced to reside self-centered lives; in return, society is deepening the seclusion pattern and spending time concerning their lifetime around the ideas of social rank and the ideal partner. Within this humanity is losing the perspective of ultimate enjoyment of ones’ existence. This resembling an addiction the consumer cannot fill the emptiness, or reach the joy that is missing because their priorities that are distorted by the constant wants for the ultimate high for the next purchase.

5. Society as a whole does not seem to worry or realize the effects of the environmental destructiveness. As long as there is a secession of market growth and capital that keeps an up rise in the economy everyone is content.

6. Our ignorance of nature is exacting a dreadful penalty on the planet; forests are being destroyed and not replenished, lands are diminishing for farmers, and oceans are being over fished. There is a definite issue with our thinking on sustainability with respect to time; we as a society are looking at it with a temporary solution, which will not

The “other things” that have been broken which account for societies behavior of discarding items that still work are; humanities’ passions, the sense of wanting more, temptation, allure, seduction, the thrill of something. Products need to be made that create these sentiments in humans, to bring out feelings from childhood of your first love.

8. The term “zero sum game” in retrospect to social status no matter where you are in the world there will always be social standings and always be a top and bottom place holding, so there will always be consumerism. Humans will continue with this game until the planet has nothing left to offer us.

9. Humanity remains hopeful about our progressed inclinations; due to the fact society is resilient in how we continue to reason and our overall actions. There is room for us to make changes yet and still come out on top.

10. Recycling and substituting power are just tackling the indications, because we are not looking at the source of the true problem. This is scratching the surface of the enormous issues without actually solving the main problem, just simply delaying time.

Part B – Reaction