Consumerism

There's a lotta that going around nowadays, in
more ways than one. The use of the word hints at
telling me that I'm just gonna have to "cut
back" my consumption of x, y, or z based on some
other sombitch's values instead of my own.

But how do you avoid being a "consumerist" and
still survive?

The use of the word has lost all meaning, full of
sound and fury. Most everyone should know where
that leads.