by making you long for stuff instead of deep social relations.

by stuffing your mind with the mysticism of stuff, stuff, stuff.

by making you feel empty and mentally insecure.

by turning your sense of community into a community based on consumptive lifestyle choices.

by subjecting your soul to a reality in which happiness is predicated upon consumptive acts.

by emptying you out of all inclinations towards questioning the corporate ideology.

by destroying your ability to see your world outside the shinny promises of hyperindividualistic happiness.

by making you feel as if the only way to belong is to shop with the herd.

by intensifying your dependency on products for your emotional sustenance.

by making you want things in a financially irresponsible fashion.

by making you feel that the answer to loneliness is going to the mall and buying shit you don't need.

by making you feel shitty about your existence so that you may drink up their sick vision of life.

by tampering with your social identifications.

by making you see the world exclusively from the point of view of a consumer.

by making you feel unsatisfied with the crap that you already have.

by making you feel shitty about the things you have and excited about the things 'you' want.

by focusing your energy on acts of obscene shopping.

by making you feel as if your realty is boring, ugly, undesirable.

by destroying your capacity to think critically about your financial situation.

by stuffing your sense of body-image with impossible definitions of beauty.