{"id":15482,"date":"2001-11-06T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-11-06T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:/wp-json/wp/v2/magazine-article/15482///wp-json/wp/v2/magazine-article/15482//www.yesmagazine.org/wp-json/wp/v2/magazine-article/15482//magazine-article/wp-json/wp/v2/magazine-article/15482//affluenzas-nothing-new-the-disease-that-ails-america/wp-json/wp/v2/magazine-article/15482//"},"modified":"2019-11-26T01:31:15","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T09:31:15","slug":"affluenza","status":"publish","type":"magazine-article","link":"https:/wp-json/wp/v2/magazine-article/15482///wp-json/wp/v2/magazine-article/15482//www.yesmagazine.org/wp-json/wp/v2/magazine-article/15482//issue/wp-json/wp/v2/magazine-article/15482//love-save-world/wp-json/wp/v2/magazine-article/15482//2001/wp-json/wp/v2/magazine-article/15482//11/wp-json/wp/v2/magazine-article/15482//06/wp-json/wp/v2/magazine-article/15482//affluenza","title":{"rendered":"Affluenza/wp-json/wp/v2/magazine-article/15482/u2019s Nothing New: The Disease That Ails America"},"content":{"rendered":"/wp-json/wp/v2/magazine-article/15482/n
Sometimes a book is so good it gets made into a movie. This time, the movie—a hit documentary on PBS from 1997—got made into a book. As usual, the book is even better./wp-json/wp/v2/magazine-article/15482/n
Affluenza documents the extent to which we are under assault—and shows us that we are not powerless./wp-json/wp/v2/magazine-article/15482/n
Affluenza, the film, began life on TV as a one-hour guided tour of America’s disastrous love affair with shopping. The film was sassy, snappy, and smart. It made you laugh, even as it filled your consciousness with the horrible realization that there was ample data to back up that sneaking intuition that our culture had fallen ill and could croak at any minute./wp-json/wp/v2/magazine-article/15482/n
The trouble? Overconsumption. We work more, to earn more, to spend more, and the spending has reached dangerously gargantuan proportions. We’re shopping ourselves to death./wp-json/wp/v2/magazine-article/15482/n