It's quite easy to compare society to the brainless zombies in Stephen King's novel Cell. We tend to group together and follow a hive-mind like mentality. Take the recent release of Halo 3. Gamers everywhere flocked to stores like the undead to brains, and the groans of the half asleep didn't help with their zombie like image.
It's not just rampant consumerism that we flock to. People will follow the media, religion, and the government without quiestion or thought. A great example of this is the Nazi propaganda that was floating around during World War 2. Many Germans got behind the Nazi regime because they thought that they were doing something good and that they would bring Germany out of the depression that was caused by the first world war.
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