The symptoms of the planetary change are consumerism and waste that puts style and flare over true value and function. Worth is determined not by substance or utility, but by access and pizzazz.
Certainly fashion is a good laboratory to examine today's calamity.
Is fashion more important than political economic decision making?
Hopefully, only for a few more days. Then maybe all Americans of all ages will cast themselves into a radical and extreme education on thrift and efficiency rather than Greed is Good.