How obnoxious america is with materialism is just, well obnoxious. How many people actually think their shirt is worth the 60 or 120 dollars they spend, or if they need a 424 horsepower car? Does your only child require the 4 extra bedrooms you have? those pants are a size 00, wait? so you technically don't have legs? The fact that so many people feel obliged to be told by steve jobs that this is the new item to have, even though the ipad 2 does nothing significantly new than the first? Why do we have to be so elitist then complain we don't have real friends. Is the main goal in our society to rise up to the top and have no friends but fans instead? fans that are striving for the same thing. Buying the new shirt or car just to be the cooler, the greener, the riskier person. But the real question is, does it make us happy? does money truly buy happiness now? Have we been told enough times that the new thing will make us happy? does this explain our materialistic view? Lets find out.