Not only is this picture funny but I actually think it's pretty representative of the minds of many of us. We've become such a consumerist society that we often quantify the value of our existence by what we consume. We suffer from commodity fetishism where our sense of self and worth is tied up in what we materially possess. So as silly as this image seems, it actually illuminates how our modern notion of success and personal worth is simply an illusion, seen when we peer through a cloak of consumerism. We think we have made it but in all reality we have very little.
"When a society wishes to commit suicide, consumerism works quite well"
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