Throughout The Two Readings, Consuming Life By Zygmuunt

Throughout the two readings, Consuming Life by Zygmuunt Bauman and The Politics of Sleep by Simon J. Williams, both help to describe post-modernism. For each of the authors, they speak about post-modernism as it takes place after the 1970s until now. This overarching term that Bauman calls the society of consumer and Williams explains as late consumerism. Both authors raise similar arguments because they provide this cycle of how an inequality of class causes an interference with from the upper class to lower class. They also talked about how the society of consumer is a membership only the rich can maintain. William is arguing that human rights should be implemented into the workforce because the lower class is suffering to produce.†¦show more content†¦Consumers are trapped in this membership and believe they must continue to consume because the ideology of consumer says that spending money leads to happiness, private ownership, which is the ultimate goal in this society . In Williams Book, he describes the late consumerism epidemic as a widespread problem. The reason being because the consumer society membership has turned us into a 24/7 society that is seeking to obtain instant gratification by cutting out an important component of their health which is sleep to be productive. He introduces this term called â€Å"neo-liberalism† (Williams, 2008, 4), which is this value that we must do more things in fewer time ties to how there is an inequality between the two classes to maintain production. Postmodernism has created this idea that fast capitalism is promoted by not sleeping to be more productive in the workplace because instead of sleeping you could be producing or consuming things in this membership that says you must consume. Williams’s book mentions how sleep has been forgotten since consumers have turned us into commodities to make sure we are always available for that next sale through social media, through advertisement, and t hrough technology. People are struggling to balance sleep and work productivity because sleeping more hurts the economy and society; however, how can they expect us to produce if we are deprived