Feeding off the Frenzy

Recently i been buying anime merchandise a bit too freely. Like suddenly i bought a gundam kit, a bleach figurine box, and a gundam 00 figurine box and a bleach substitute shinigami plate. Some thing inside me seems to feel happy when i buy these things, sort of like my retail therapy. Of course most of these are driven by my desire to convert these things, like this. It is to become my new belt buckle, hopefully when i have time to convert it.

But the thing is, everywhere you go, there seems to be companies capitalizing on people's obsessions and likes. From books to movies, movies to merchandise, ideas and designs are being taken and overused till they become too common place and it loses its appeal, degrading the original idea. After a while it just becomes sad. But its common place for this to occur. Lives are driven by profit so companies mass produce them to earn the dollar by the masses. And consumers only buy with the hype or when the prices are low. Companies even create cheap items to placate this feeding ignoring quality, thus flooding the markets with legal "cheap imitations". And we the consumer gobble it up. When does it actually end and when do we remember the actual idea of it all.