Is Consumerism Consuming Us?

If you’re like me, you don’t consider yourself a consumer glutton. You don’t own the road with your pimped-out Excursion. You don’t own the neighborhood with your seven-bedroom uber-mansion. Nope, you’re just a little piece of the American pie. You take in a few dinners and movies with your friends, you drive whatever you can afford (and will get you there!), and when you splurge its rarely on a private jet or a gold-plated hot tub.But whether we buy the bling-bling or the boring, we need to rec