When Is Enough...Enough?
Americans are infatuated — maybe even obsessed — with people who have what we don’t. The media encourages our coveting by presenting a steady diet of lifestyles of the apparently rich and famous in magazines, on TV’s celebrity news and on Internet sites. We dress like celebrities, talk like them and may secretly aspire to live like them.
Is it such a big deal to want to know what famous people are doing, wearing and buying? The big deal is our infatuation feeds a fire that can’t easily be quenched, and consumes both the fuel and the “stoker.”
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