Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions based on the passage:
When a child is surrounded by a universe of faithful and multifaceted objects, he can just see himself as the possessor. As a consumer, never as a maker, he does not create the universe. He applies it: actions are there, sometimes even in a very boring way, open for him, no adventure, no wonder, no joy. The child controls the whole situation as if he were a little stay-at-home householder; he does not even have to invent the mainsprings of adult causality, they are supplied to him ready-made: he just has to take, he never is allowed to find something out by himself from beginning to end. Even the simplest set of blocks, as long as it is not too subtle, suggests a very different learning of the world: the child who plays with the blocks does not in any way produce meaningful objects; the adult's name does not matter at all; the actions he does are those of a user, but he is a maker of gods. He makes forms that walk, that roll, he creates life, not property: the objects now have their own will; they are no longer a dead and complicated material lying in his hand.
What critique of consumer culture is embedded in the author's discussion of the child as 'possessor'?
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Correct answer: D
Explanation
The central critique is that when children are given too many finished, 'multifaceted' objects, they become passive owners (possessors) of 'dead material' rather than active creators. The abundance of these ready-made possessions prioritizes the act of having (ownership) over the act of imagining and building (creation).