Today we live in a society that seems to be less and less concerned with reality. We drink instant coffee and reconstituted orange juice. We buy our vegetables on cardboard trays covered with plastic. But perhaps the most dehumanizing thing of all is that we have allowed the media to call us consumers--ugly. No! I don't want to be a consumer. Anger consumes. Forest fires consume. Cancer consumes. Madeleine LEngle
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The concept of consuming too much is an idea that is very common today. One of the main reasons for this is that there are so many different products on the market that it can be hard to know what to buy. There are so many different types of clothing, food, and other products on the market at any given time that it can be hard to choose which ones are good choices and which ones are bad choices. Many people also believe that there is no longer a need for them to truly experience things. They believe that they can just go out and buy the things they want instead of having to work to earn money in order to buy those things for themselves.

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