Answer these discussion questions:

1. What comes to your mind when you think of consumer culture?
2. Explain how it involves the kinds of products sold, how we value products comparatively, how we feel about the products we have, those we want, and those our neighbors have?
3. What sorts of products are most important to you? ones that you feel you just "have to have"?
4. What do people mean when they talk about conspicuous consumption?
5. What would U.S. culture look like if we didn't have such an emphasis on consumerism in our culture?
6. How would roads identified now as "strips" change?
7. What would the world look like?