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Despite such a catalogue of economic casualties and social costs, as long as the system keeps on delivering greater prosperity, the shows stays on the road, even if that road is increasingly pot-holed , congested and destructive of the environment> Momentum is sustained by new forms of what Marx termed commodity fetishism. Rising levels of consumption are no longer driven by the prime modern phenomena of built-in obsolescence and the "motor of fashion". To them can now be added "branding" based on the increased technological capacity to "gold-plate" products ..... Though Sennet does not involve the parallels , the innovation of ceaseless 'choice' and unrealizable fulfilment are all too redolent of the pressures towards states of anomie.