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Affluenza
- 1997 ----- color ----- 56 min ----- vhs
- Medical Alert! An outbreak of Affluenza has been reported. Symptoms: Swollen Expectations, Hypercommercialism, Shopping Fever, a Rash of Bankruptcies, Fractured Families, Chronic Stress, Social Scars and Resource Exhaustion. Presents a fascinating look at one of the greatest social maladies of our time: overconsumption and materialism. Hosted by NPR's Scott Simon, both the comical and sobering aspects of our consumerism and its enormous impact on our families, communities and the environment is explored. With the help of historians and archival film, the program reveals the forces that have dramatically transformed us from a nation that prizes thriftiness--with strong beliefs in "plain living and high thinking"--into the ultimate consumer society. (A study guide is available upon request) [Closed-Captioned]
- Topics: (Advertising, Community Life, Economics, Family Life, Sociology)
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