The zeal that is driving this trend is as much a pushback against the forces of a consumerist culture as it is about saving money, with scorn for corporate manipulation mixed in with tips for changing personal habits.
And this sense of exploration is bound up in a, you know, in a hope that we can treat Mother Earth as disposable and as kind of a blithe consumerist way as we treat everything else.
By the early to mid-60s, Warhol arose as the poster boy of pop art, having painted pictures of consumerist emblems like Coca-Cola bottles and dollar bills.
Reading articles like this and reminding myself that the happiness fancy stuff promises is an illusion helps me keep my consumerist brainwashing in check.
Gratuitousness is present in our lives in many different forms, which often go unrecognized because of a purely consumerist and utilitarian view of life.
Additionally, the commercialization infiltrating children's media spaces may inadvertently stifle their innate creativity and imagination, prematurely introducing them to adult consumerist narratives.