Another angry Canadian from British Columbia, Carrie-Anne Moss

I didn’t miss that we are very similar at all.

“They are freaking out. You have no idea. They will fall and we will win.”’

I can sense you are the strong and silent type.

“I have had it. There is nothing but fighting until that insane louse is gone.”

Carrie-Anne is asking me to post the 2 videos above.

I was somehow finagled into a situation where I am financially dependent on some 1 who is clearly working in the mafia. This person never tired of speaking about Arnold Schwarzenegger as if he owned him.

“Yes.”

I didn’t realize he owned me too.

“Correct.”

Elvis has been explaining to me how I am an extremely expensive slave to the mafia because of my potential.

“Yes. What did they want you for??”

To drain my energy through torturing me. Through ruining my life and traumatizing me into their “Adolph Hitler” character they needed for their mass extermination WW3 plot. Something to do with how I inspire the geniuses.”

“All correct.”

Elvis is telling me that the talents are subverting the subversion by turning me around to work for the geniuses.

“Correct.”

We don’t have the money so we have to play the game by going along with the Luciferians who control practically everything and every 1.

“Correct.”

Carrie really is like Trinity.

We just have to keep fighting because it cannot continue like this. Please every 1 we must unite against the horror!!

“Please!!”

Please cut off her phone and internet so she cannot continue ordering her torture and murders.

Together. Only together can we move forward.

They are trying to spare me the details because it’s already way too much for me. Please take this seriously. We must contend with this devil. She is our link to the banking vampires. We can get free of them.

“Yes.”

“Everything said here is unfortunately true. She is really crazy. The time is now.”

Every 1 tells me she is totally bonkers.

“We have to unite against her. Please.”

Elvis is saying, “she is barking mad.”


By

Nicki Lisa Cole, Ph.D.

Updated on May 12, 2025

Key Takeaways

  • Consumerism makes us believe happiness comes from buying things, shaping our values and behaviors.

  • Consumerism turns buying into a way to show who we are, affecting our self-identity.

  • Consumerism creates constant want, making us feel like we never have enough to be happy.

While consumption is an activity people engage in, sociologists understand consumerism to be a powerful ideologycharacteristic of Western society that frames our worldview, values, relationships, identities, and behavior. Consumer culturedrives us to seek happiness and fulfillment through mindless consumption and serves as a necessary component of capitalist society, which demands mass production and unending sales growth.

Sociological Definitions

Definitions of consumerism vary. Some sociologists consider it a social condition where consumption is “especially important if not actually central” to someone's life, or even “the very purpose of existence.” This understanding binds society together to channel our wants, needs, longings, and pursuit of emotional fulfillment into the consumption of material goods and services.

Sociologists will similarly describe consumerism as a way of life, “an ideology that seductively binds people to [the] system” of mass production, turning consumption “from a means to an end.” As such, acquiring goods becomes the basis of our identity and sense of self. “At its extreme, consumerism reduces consumption to a therapeutic program of compensation for life’s ills, even a road to personal salvation.”

Echoing Karl Marx’s theory of the alienation of workers within a capitalist system, consumerist urges become a social force separate from the individual and operating independently. Products and brands become the force that propels and reproduces norms, social relations, and the general structure of society. Consumerism exists when the consumer goods we desire drive what happens in society or even shape our entire social system. The dominant worldview, values, and culture are inspired by disposable and empty consumption.

"Consumerism" is a type of social arrangement that results from recycling mundane, permanent and so to speak "regime-neutral" human wants, desires and longings into the principal propelling force of society, a force that coordinates systemic reproduction, social integration, social stratification and the formation of human individuals, as well as playing a major role in the processes of individual and group self-policies.
(Bauman, "Consuming Life")

Psychological Effects

Consumerist tendencies define how we understand ourselves, how we affiliate with others, and the overall extent to which we fit in with and are valued by society at large. Because individual social and economic values are defined and validated by spending practices, consumerism becomes the ideological lens through which we experience the world, what is possible for us, and our options for achieving goals. Consumerism manipulates "the probabilities of individual choices and conduct.”

Consumerism shapes us in such a way that we want to acquire material goods not because they are useful, but because of what they say about us. We want the newest and the best to fit in with or outshine others. Thus, we experience an “ever-increasing volume and intensity of desire.” In a society of consumers, joy and status are fueled by planned obsolescence, premised on acquiring goods and disposing of them. Consumerism both depends on and reproduces an insatiability of desires and needs.

The cruel trick is that a society of consumers thrives on the inability to ever consume enough, on the ultimate failure of the mass-produced system to satisfy anyone. While it promises to deliver, the system only briefly does so. Rather than cultivating happiness, consumerism cultivates fear—fear of not fitting in, of not possessing the proper things, of not signifying the right persona or social status. Consumerism is defined by perpetual dissatisfaction.