"If you took functional MRI scans of a healthy ‘normal’ person, a person with a personality disorder, and a business tycoon with a track record of exploitation, chances are you would find that the MRI scan of the tycoon was more closely matched with the MRI scan of the personality disorder...
"When there is an overabundance of environmental stimulation that is singularly focused on profit-making then it is inevitable that our impressionable children and adolescents (and some adults) will suffer from impaired cognitive development and/or altered brain function...
"Being surrounded by consumerism all the time will make you shallow, greedy, miserable, and more likely to be aggressive. And when I say ‘make you’, I don’t mean a temporary psychological state, I mean it will alter the structure and function of the brain itself.
"It is not just consumerism via adverts, T.V. and film. Disproportionate exposure to the ‘celeb-lifestyle’ and ‘fashion-based ideals’ is also likely to have a detrimental effect on the developing brain."
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