Do you know that an average Internet user logs 1.72 times a day on social platforms? Managing the inflow of data, we consume and able to be more creative has been a struggle for a major part of the American society. In the articles “Is Consumerism Killing Our Creativity?” and “Why Excessive Consumption Limits Your Creativity” the authors Ms. Jocelyn K. Glei and Mr. Srinivas Rao respectively discuss how excessive consumerism affects society’s creativity. In his article Mr. Rao states that most people nowadays are being engaged in immoderate consumption than in creativity that negatively impacts their ability to be creative and do effective work. In addition, he explains that consumerism becomes addictive because it excites a certain part of
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He explains these people may suffer from depression, social anxiety and other health problems due to their craving in excessive consumption that may interfere with their mind’s capacity to be creative. It is obvious, to see that excessive consumption is addictive, forcing people to crave it more giving little thought about using creativity to achieve the level of satisfaction they want and even cause some mental health problems that can interfere with people’s ability to be creative proving that the American consumer culture really suppresses creativity. Today, people are being judged on the way how they consume or spend money to acquire goods not based on their creative minds that can enable to find a living that has a long lasting happiness. In the article “Spent America after Consumerism” the author Mr. Amitai Etzioni describes the current American culture as a culture that is dominated by ideology of consumerism which is being obsessed with acquiring goods. To illustrate he says, “A culture in which the urge to consumer dominates the psychology of citizens as its culture in which people will do most anything to acquire the means to consume – working slavish hours, behaving rapaciously in their business pursuits, and even bending …show more content…
In addition, on a personal view in the American society is that the people often try to acquire the latest goods or gadgets that are available because of the need to be normal like the rest of the society instead of exploring how are the goods they are consuming are made and start their own creation of activities in which they can achieve the level of satisfaction they want to achieve becomes greater because the influence of consumerism. Therefore, from these given reasons we can understand that the current American consumerist culture instead of enhancing creativity, it diminishes it across the society shifting its attention more towards excessive consumption. Some people might believe that the American consumerist culture does not suppress creativity but enhances it. In their view, the time and effort invested in looking for new things to acquire, the calculations made to choose the right item is considered as being creative and the satisfaction you get from it can last long. While this might be true that they are thinking about how to get and choose the right item might be considered as being creative. However, the time and energy lost on hunting for the right item to choose could have helped them to come up with more creative ideas that would help them in knowing what a creative mind could be and learn that the
He explains these people may suffer from depression, social anxiety and other health problems due to their craving in excessive consumption that may interfere with their mind’s capacity to be creative. It is obvious, to see that excessive consumption is addictive, forcing people to crave it more giving little thought about using creativity to achieve the level of satisfaction they want and even cause some mental health problems that can interfere with people’s ability to be creative proving that the American consumer culture really suppresses creativity. Today, people are being judged on the way how they consume or spend money to acquire goods not based on their creative minds that can enable to find a living that has a long lasting happiness. In the article “Spent America after Consumerism” the author Mr. Amitai Etzioni describes the current American culture as a culture that is dominated by ideology of consumerism which is being obsessed with acquiring goods. To illustrate he says, “A culture in which the urge to consumer dominates the psychology of citizens as its culture in which people will do most anything to acquire the means to consume – working slavish hours, behaving rapaciously in their business pursuits, and even bending …show more content…
In addition, on a personal view in the American society is that the people often try to acquire the latest goods or gadgets that are available because of the need to be normal like the rest of the society instead of exploring how are the goods they are consuming are made and start their own creation of activities in which they can achieve the level of satisfaction they want to achieve becomes greater because the influence of consumerism. Therefore, from these given reasons we can understand that the current American consumerist culture instead of enhancing creativity, it diminishes it across the society shifting its attention more towards excessive consumption. Some people might believe that the American consumerist culture does not suppress creativity but enhances it. In their view, the time and effort invested in looking for new things to acquire, the calculations made to choose the right item is considered as being creative and the satisfaction you get from it can last long. While this might be true that they are thinking about how to get and choose the right item might be considered as being creative. However, the time and energy lost on hunting for the right item to choose could have helped them to come up with more creative ideas that would help them in knowing what a creative mind could be and learn that the