Try our new email daily devotional. Life today is WAY too busy. Take some time to STOP and look around . Countering Consumerism by Tonya Stoneman People who wear the latest tennis shoes are hipper and happier. A person doesn't look right without wearing name-brand clothing.
Beauty products make people beautiful.
Frequently, advertisements designed to entice consumers to spend money draw people into a self-critical, materialistic mindset. In the pages of trade journals targeted at industry insiders, popular network MTV offers those who buy their airtime a chance to influence viewers who, it boasts, will do whatever the network tells them to do. Magazines geared toward young girls frequently position articles about the virtues of being thin next to advertisements for weight-loss products. Not a mere coincidence. Commercials, magazine ads, and billboards constantly tell young people how they are supposed to look, dress, and spend their money.