Farther Away: Essays | 
You can supply your own..examples of the commodification of love.Mine include the wedding industry,the giving of automobiles as Christmas presents..The message is if you love somebody you should buy stuff.A related phenomenon is the transformation, courtesy of Facebook,of the verb 'to like' from a state of mind to an action...from a feeling to an assertion of consumer choice. And liking, in general, is commercial culture's substitution for loving.
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