I can only speak for myself, but I find facts such as these interesting. And perhaps there's something less negative than "consumer culture" at play… humans ar

I can only speak for myself, but I find facts such as these interesting. And perhaps there's something less negative than "consumer culture" at play… humans are generally curious about and interested in extraordinary things. e.g. Olympic athletes, inordinately successful businesses and business people, brilliant artists, robots landing on other planets, etc.