By Davi Lago | Brazilian Baptist Pastor

The consumist world is the world of  waste. We live in a world where people consume as consolation. I suffer then I buy. Than more a person is unhappy, more he buys immediate pleasures. The consume is useful as a palliative for the frustrated desires of modern man. People buy to forget their problems.

The uncontrolled consumerism of our times reveals how people are hyper-individualistic. Each set your own pace and lifestyle. For example, young people wear costumes and music to make an affirmation of themselves.

Consumption is also continuous. Everything works 24 hours a day. Not long vacant. The Internet allows you to buy at anytime and anywhere. Consumerism is frenetic. Today we do not know how to wait. We are living in a culture of impatience. People are allergic to expect. It is the time delay of zero. People are depressed by the immediacy and urgency. The men are prisoners of the dictatorship of real time.

The Deluxe also has a very narrow connection with the waste. Indeed, this is as old as the world. The luxury has always been conceived as an form of wastage, excess, waste,but the problem is that in an consumer society is any society that functions like a waste.Today because of the products are made to be disposable, is no longer simply a luxury that is synonymous with waste. Some time ago, it was the fashion, for example, but today, the entire consumption leads to waste.

People are after status symbols, and to have it they do what it takes.

“Who are resting on beds of ivory, stretched out on soft seats, feasting on lambs from the flock and young oxen from the cattle-house; Making foolish to the sound of corded instruments, and designing for themselves instruments of music, like David; Drinking wine in basins, rubbing themselves with the best oils; but they have no grief for the destruction of Joseph” (Am 6:4-6).