Essay on Consumerisms choke hold on America. In depth look at what consumerism is and how it affects everyday americans.

Specific Purpose: To persuade the class to stop being members of a consumerist society, and to help turn our society from consumerism Consumerism Attention Introduction: "Our enormously productive economy demands that we make consumption our way of life. That we convert the buying and use of goods into rituals, that we seek our spiritual satisfaction, our ego satisfaction, in consumption...We need things consumed, burned up, worn out, replaced, and discarded at an ever increasing …

…our environment layer by layer. It is now time to begin its removal one layer at a time. Small everyday changes are easier to implement than a broad philosophical revolution, but leads to that outcome. You vote for the kind of economy, society and environment that you want every time you spend green ballots called money. Vote for yourself and for your future by spending carefully and wisely, or when appropriate, not spending at all.