if you shop at walmart, you get it. you know how to spend a little less to get a little more to make life a little better. this is the way we live now. nice, even temperature. no rain, no snow, no loud noises. music is playing. everything s perfect in the mall. in the 1980s, you have 16,000 malls popping up like mushrooms, and they become the high temples of the great american religion, shopping. pam and melissa, 15 years old, come to the mall almost every day. they call themselves mall rats. i love it. it s only $24. consumerism definitely took over in the 80s. people emerged from the 1970s,