Consumerism Consumes the World!

At last i got my own work to publish! It was just a first grade assignment at the university so, don't expect much from it :)

Consumerism is the word for the personal happiness with the purchasing of material possessions and consumption. As you might already know, with the beginning of Industrial Age, jewellery, clothing, furniture and personal goods started to be mass-produced. For example, some corporation was digging silver from the corner of the world, processing it, and selling it for high-prices in another part of the earth. When people started to buy these goods, they started to become happier. But the modern researches showed us that the consumerist society also became unhappier when they are not able to buy goods. Anyway, the corporations became richer and started to produce more goods and the more people started to buy things and got addicted to consuming. This cycle rolled like this, and it still does. To be honest, my opinion about this consuming process is pessimistic. I think that by consuming and enjoying more and more luxuries every passing day, the only actual thing we do is making corporations even richer, and making ourselves unhappier after we enjoyed the momentary happiness of the whole consuming process. I think that this consumption process is making us depressed out of nothing. For example, a child can get depressed when he sees his classmate’s IPOD and wants to buy the exact same thing. To be honest, this feeling, I mean being jealous of other one’s possessions, is the foundation of this whole consumerism process. The consumerist society is founded on these feelings. It is actually, how the cycle still continues to roll. Of

course, the harm is not only done to ourselves. Consumption also harms the world itself. By consuming, we actually deplete the world’s resources. Of course it’s not just simple like I said. It’s not just depleting, it’s actually polluting the air we breathe, the seas we swim in, the waters we drink. Actually a news-report from the Daily Galaxy (http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2007/12/are-there-reall.html) revealed that there are actually continents made of garbage floating on the Atlantic Ocean. Yeah, unfortunately, remains of what we consume, usually goes right to the seas, then to the oceans. So, to be honest, I don’t really know how to finish this writing of mine, cause no matter what I say, the situation looks hopeless, it looks like in a matter of time, we will see more birds dead with their stomachs filled with plastics and garbage!