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Consuming America: What Have We Done to Ourselves? What Did (Are) They Doing to Us? George Ritzer Distinguished University Professor University of Maryland

Three problems with Fordham symposium title “Consuming America: What Have We Done to Ourselves?” ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

What have we done to ourselves? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

What have they done to us? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],… What have they done to us? This leads us to buy things we don’t need or use

Dupes? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Role of US Government ,[object Object],Great contradiction: Government concern over hyperconsumption, hyperdebt, but can’t accept slow-growing economy

The “Evils” of Hyperconsumption: an Example ,[object Object]

The Cathedrals of Consumption as “Wienies” ,[object Object],[object Object]

Eiffel Tower (1,000 ft high) ,[object Object]

Empire State Bldg, NYC (1250 ft)

World Trade Center (taller than Empire State)

[object Object],Shanghai World Financial Center (1555 ft) Petronas Twin Towers (Kuala Lumpur, 1482 ft)

Burj Khalifa ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

[object Object],Dubai Mall (2008)-1200 shops, gold souk, aquarium (recently sprung a leak), ice rink Mall of Emirates- 400 metre ski slope

[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Planned (delayed) Dubailand - 107 square miles, 6 themed worlds, 2x as large as all Disney lands/worlds

Modern Cruise Ships ,[object Object],Royal Caribbean “Oasis of the Seas”

Why? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

From Cathedrals to Dinosaurs of Consumption (Who are the wienies Now?) ,[object Object],Shibuya Crossing, Tokyo

Echelon, Las Vegas, 3 towers halted mid-construction

Fontainebleau, Las Vegas, bankrupt, on hold

Future of Cosmopolitan, City Center ($11 billion; most expensive private construction project in US history)

Malls - Randall Park Mall (Outside Cleveland) closed in 2009

“ Oasis of the Sea” ,[object Object]

What are “Our” (US) options? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

A Likely Future Scenario: ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Hope? ,[object Object],[object Object]

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