You Can't Have it Both Ways Gobble Gobble

I see a turkey gobbling away. This one has no feathers-- but does walk on two feet. Perhaps I speak of the ridiculous human?
Why oh why do they love to decry: "the culture of materialism, the shopping, the black Friday?'
Don't blame Best Buy or Macy's for crying out loud!--blame the so called 'economists.' (Those nerds who smugly sit by and pull the puppet strings of capitalism.)
Nobody bats an eye when the Wall Street Journal goes on and on about the glory of "consumer spending" and oh how will it "strengthen our economy". Nobody notices at all..in fact this is all they can come up with for a global model you know.
"Germans need to spend more and stop exporting, Japan needs to spend more...blah, blah...."
Yet no economist EVER talks about the typical middle class home stuffed to the gills with crappy Dora the Explorer bedspreads, PlayStation games, particle board coffee tables, and giant jars of mayonnaise. Everyone is miserable as they drown in their piles of stuff, all the while trying to figure out why they need to work so hard "just to get ahead".....
The economists say this is all glorious, because we are creating even more eager little consumers in Asia (as we buy piles and piles of their cheap clothes). So they in turn can consume what interests them: like elephant ivory for crying out loud!!
I have heard that turkeys are such silly creatures that they turn their heads up at the rain--causing them to drown. When will we learn that humans may just drown in their own silliness ???