Steps. 1  1. Figure out how bad it really is. Take the quiz below, adding up every time you answered yes. 2  2. Do not feel bad about not reading the digital avalanche of email, blog posts, or web content. You'll never be caught up and that's okay. 3  3. Don't read everything word for word.
Consumerism as a social and economic order and ideology encourages the acquisition of goods and services in ever-increasing amounts.ance Packard worked to change the meaning of the term consumerism from a positive word about consumer practices to a negative word meaning excessive materialism and waste. The ads for his 1960 book The Waste Makers prominently featured the word consumerism in a negative way.
It depends upon a new kind of individualism-projective individualism, where persons use consumer capitalism to project the kind of person who they want to be.ome use the phrase as shorthand for the broader idea that the interests of other non-business entities (governments, religions, the military, educational institutions) are intertwined with corporate business interests, and that those entities also participate in the management of social expectations through mass media.