Can We Stop It With the Pillows?

Beds used to be a place to sleep.  Somewhere in the last decade they became the place to showcase every single pillow that we've ever owned.  Why?

Enough already.

I only need one pillow, maybe two if I'm in a crappy hotel and get the wafer-thin sack of aquarium filter floss. The trend to pillow overconsumption started with the idea known as the "pillow sham".  It tells you right in the name that it is an adornment steeped in cheap deception!  It is not like a bed full of pillows looks clean and organized, so why make a bed just to cover it in stuff?  It is just another damn rubic's cube that I have to navigate between brushing my teeth and going to sleep. 

When I was in grad school I lived in a dump apartment above a noisy bar and didn't own a bed.  I had a beanbag and a pile of pillows on the floor.  It was fine because it served the need.  

Now I see a bed full of pillows and I just want to know why it has to be that way.  Is it just a statement of our nation's worship of fluffy things?   Is it a reminder of our bedding decadence over those other banket-n-sheet cultures?  Keeping ahead of the bed Jones' somehow?  

A bed is where I sleep.  14 decorative pillows just slows the process.