Symptoms: swollen expectations, hypercommercialism, shopping fever, a rash of bankruptcies, fractured families, chronic stress, social scars and resource exhaustion.

Presented in 2 segments, Affluenza is a fascinating look at one of the greatest social maladies of our time: overconsumption and materialism. Hosted by National Public Radio's Scott Simon, the program explores both the comical and sobering aspects of our consumerism and its enormous impact on families, communities and the envirnoment.

With the help of historians and archival film, Affluenza reveals the forces that have dramatically transofrmed us from a nation that prizes thriftiness into the ultimate consumer society.

Updated DVD features include:

• 45 minutes of interviews with John de Graff (filmmaker), Cecile Andrews (voluntary simplicity expert), Peter Dorman (economist)
• 7 Adbusters "uncommercials"
• teachers and viewer's guides in PDF