The Guardian: "Fat-free chocolate and absolutely no smoking: why our guilt about consumption is all-consuming"

"From fear of being seen smoking, to Starbucks' 'coffee karma', we've arrived at a cultural impasse as consumers.

"As 2014's Prix Pictet photography prize tackles the theme of consumption, Slavoj Žižek traces how we've ended up buying into lifestyles, rather than living our lives"

Take me away from all this

"What we are witnessing today is the direct commodification of our experiences themselves: what we are buying on the market is fewer and fewer products (material objects) that we want to own, and more and more life experiences."

[The comments section may be easier to understand than the article.]