Consumerism is the central feature of contemporary capitalism, and more to the point, it is a belief system, an ‘ism’.
The production and consumption of stuff are inextricably linked, that almost everything has its price.
Erecting warehouses of stuff locks into life-style choices, that shopping becomes an end in itself rather than simply a means to keeping ourselves provisioned.
Stuff is ‘us’ in the first place, rather than being an externalisation of our needs and desires.
Our consumption if stuff has direct implications for people around the world, that our consumption practices have deep implications for people’s ways of life.
