Consumed: Is Our Consumer Culture Leading to Disaster?
Labels: Documentary, Economics, Lifestyle, Psychology, Society, SociologyConsumed: Discover how the secrets of the human mind are destroying our world
Consumerism has become the cornerstone of the post-industrial age. Yet how much do we know about it and what it is doing to us? Using theories of evolutionary psychology to underpin a bold narrative of our times, this film takes a whirlwind tour through the "weird mental illness of consumerism", showing how our insatiable appetite has driven us into "the jaws of the beast". Both an apocalyptic and redemptive view of the human condition.
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