Updike's take on consumerism!

From novelist John Updike's interview (featured in latest Time magazine):

"I find myself disturbed lately by the fact that restaurants give you more than any sane person would want to eat, and food is packaged in bigger and bigger containers now so that you try to buy a mere quart of ginger ale and you have to buy a gallon of it that won't fit in the refrigerator. I'm very aware, almost for the first time in my life, of consumerism, being a dupe of consumerism. In my old age, as my appetites lessen, I guess I'm more and more easily disgusted by the fact that we're living in this society committted to making us spend more than we have, or more than we should, for stuff we don't really need or want, and that furthermore is killing us slowly as well as filling all the landfills and making the birds sing less and so on."