(She was a conscious consumer before "conscious consumerism" was even a thing).Here, she's photographed in the silver gown she wore for her husband's Inaugural Ball.
Not only do many of these licensed toys introduce young people to fashion and consumerism before they have developed critical judgment, but we as parents give them the stuff too early.
The West German reconceptualises his brother as a "thing" (in a speech that also booms with echoes of Nazi ideology) and ultimately negates him in what could be described as an act of extreme consumerism, before ending up where we started - in a diner in Californian, dreaming bad dreams of the past in the arms of the transsexual waitress.
Physical clutter, as a widespread problem, is only as old as modern consumerism: before the availability of cheap gadgets, clothes and self-assembly furniture, it wasn't an option for most people to accumulate basements full of unwanted exercise bikes, games consoles or broken Ikea bookshelves.
"Ripped" comprises photographs of two hundred T-shirts from the post-punk period, "after the submission of 1960's rock 'n' roll to mass popularity and before the onset of ironic consumerism".
One example was Naked Protest, a mobile sound system introduced into a major Berlin shopping mall shortly before Christmas to protest Christmas consumerism; very easy to produce, the system is also very useful for disarming police intervention, because they remain stunned, having no instructions on how to deal with naked people.
They looked momentarily stumped, before one piped up, "Commercialism and consumerism".
Typical is Gandhi Mate, Gandhi, a rap-rock pileup that finds singer Rou Reynolds railing against the international arms trade, consumerism and global warming before deciding "We're sick of this shit!" over a colon-juddering wobbly dubstep bass.
And when borrowing became cheap, we embraced remortgaging and borrowing like never before (even in the flush of Eighties consumerism, personal borrowing stayed steady, at around £3bn) and banks were only too willing to help.
