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The text can teach us something profound about what is taking place right now. We are told to be part of a trash culture. We are always trapped withing this identity crisis. We are manipulated by sensationalistic media. The constant identity crisis can only be soothed by more and more consumption of useless goods. Our luxuries and goods are only succeeding in bringing us farther and farther apart from each other because we can only see ourselves as individuals. Instead of bringing each other together, we are driving each other away.
Rousseau says We are living in a time where we buy things to impress others and are always in competition with one another. A person who buys a nice car or expensive clothes is a slave to the gaze of the other. They are not trying to satisfy thyself but succombing to the critizisms of society and its demands.
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This is truthful. I hope this itself sheds light on your problem.
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Other routes to identity: an ivy league diploma to prove that you are part of the intelligensia; a red sports car as evidence of your "fast" personality, to borrow that archiac adjective; a Hermes Birkin to indicate that you live on the Upper East Side; etc. etc.
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This also is very truthful.
I myself had your problem a few years ago. I always had to buy clothes, clothes, clothes... but I was never satisfied. However, I got over it by realizing finally that it will NEVER satisfy me. Also interests in poetry, literature and philosophy made me take my mind off this obsession.
