What was "consumptionism" and why was Strauss against it?

Consumptionism is when people have have urge to want more and more things. Strauss contemplated this and did not think consumptionism was ethical and that different types of structures would help the economy, not consumptionism.

Explanation:

glass wants to live in a world of super heroes and villains. he have lived all his life trying to be responsible for the creating the origin story of a super hero; he schemed and caused many incidents (many of them fatal) hoping that someday someone with superpowers would show up and save the day.

he knew himself very much. he saw himself as a villain of a real-life super hero story. he was aware of his strengths (more than smart enough for being manipulative and scheming) and weaknesses (having fragile bones and having to rely on his mind to succeed).

answer; ///any two strangers are likely to share many coincidental similarities;