It is the genocide mentality, the video game mentality. It's a game. And what I am saying is that we are the cause. This is a culture in which we are reduced to the disgusting, impossible position of consumer, hungry voids with tentacles of money, drawing products to us in selfish, vicious greed. We're told we'll find happiness this way.
Some people totally buy into the mindset, and spend their lives in pursuit of material.
The majority don't quite believe it, but figure there's nothing to be done, and play along for now. Our children graduate to the happiness substitutes of popularity, cars, clothes, fashionable promiscuity - denial of the void. Alternately, if they are rejected by this structure, they become enamored of the lack of meaning, and celebrate it. Some go as far as suicide. Some go as far as murder.