People no longer want to see themselves primarily as consumers, but as activists.
Marketers reinforce the idea - a false one - that celebrity is available to everyone.
Celebrity is more than a culture today; it is an industry, complete with fame factories.
Confidence, not paper or digital money, is the key currency in a capitalist system.
Societies don't become less self-indulgent; people do.
We are products not of our technologies, but of our choices about how to use them.