While it is true that there always have been very powerful, successful, exploitive upper class, the diff is that the ratio twix the poor and the wealthy class is the greatest today in the USA since the 1880's. That diff is not a matter of degree but of kind, a kind worthy of analysis.
While gross consumerism is a problem; it is a problem as symptom, not the cause. Huxley has it right, consumerism is a means of control. The problem is deeper, and not found at the individual level. Furthermore, by claiming that the middle class ought to think for themselves seems to me to be blaming the victim.
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