A Darker Consumerism

Our relationship with social media has made us consumers of people.

As early as when I was a child in the late 1990s and early 2000s I remember a lot of talk and concern about consumerisms, with people often holding up the modern shopping mall as a sort of edifice of worship to stuff. Then, in the later 2000s and 2010s, concerns around consumerism floated away from shopping malls as stores closed and toward Amazon as we…