All I do is freewrite - I never mind :)
I think most people are just buying crap though. What I question is, how much influence is held over us in what we think we need for the future? I think a lot of what we consume is meaningless, but we feel we should - it is much like the education system that largely teaches irrelevant information, saying it is important for us to have a good career.
Some of us have started to think for ourselves. A great many of us in fact. We do not need to organize, we do not need to protest, we do not need to form groups. We need to all start thinking for ourselves.
But yeah. If you're not thinking for yourself, you're awash in influences that tell you to buy stuff you do not need. Also to believe stuff you do not need to believe, fear stuff you do not need to fear, and do stuff you do not need to do.
thinking for ourselves, consuming from each other.