The Consumer Society

The Consumer Society

I’m a barbie girl, in a barbie world.
Life in plastic, it’s fantastic.
You can brush my hair and undress me everywhere.
Imagination, life is your creation!


We all want this, we all want that...give me, give me, give me!
This is our problem. We have lost the ability to sacrifice, the ability to discipline our money and ourselves.
Well, I have bad news; it is not going to get any easier. New products arrive every day, new fads, and new places to entertain us.

When my parents were children their idea of entertainment was a day out on a country drive, a picnic or just kicking a ball around a park with the other children. Ha! Life now just isn’t as simple as that.
We want computer games, wide screen TV’s, DVD players, surround sound, expensive restaurants, cinema, mobile phones and it does not stop.
We want every new gadget that comes out and we want it so much that we convince ourselves that we need it. We actually end up believing that the n...