Consumerism = Consuming Desires?

The basic problem with consumer society is not that it makes us desire too much, but that it makes us desire too little. We are distracted from our true freedom. (Tony Kelly, Consuming Passions: Christianity and the Consumer Society [Sydney: Australian Catholic Bishops Conference, 1995] 11; quoted in Gallagher, Clashing Symbols: An Introduction to Faith and Culture, new and revised edition [London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 2003] 129.)