"We live in a consumerist culture increasingly dominated by those with a financial interest in keeping us ignorant of this fact, but that doesn't make it any le

"We live in a consumerist culture increasingly dominated by those with a financial interest in keeping us ignorant of this fact, but that doesn't make it any less true." One of the more subtle, but powerful cultural subplots in the TV series "30 Rock" was the salutation that Dennis Duffy[1] would greet Liz Lemon with whenever she involved him in her life: "Hey dummy..." [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_30_Rock_characters#Dennis_Duffy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_30_Rock_characters#Den...