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“All we do is work to maximise our consumption privileges and to be able to tell people at parties that were a lawyer, an artist or a police officer.”
“But even in the much-publicized rebellion of the young against the materialism of the affluent society, the consumer mentality is too often still intact: the standards of behavior are still those o...”
“We have to create culture, don't watch TV, don't read magazines, don't even listen to NPR. Create your own roadshow. The nexus of space and time where you are now is the most immediate sector of yo...”
“The decadent artist markets other people's pain”
“Marriage, in what is evidently its most popular version, is now on the one hand an intimate 'relationship' involving (ideally) two successful careerists in the same bed, and on the other hand a sor...”
“The quickest way to stop noticing something, may be to buy itjust as the quickest way to stop appreciating someone may be to marry him or her.”
“Nin knew how much humans loved money, riches, and material thingsthough he never really could understand why. The more technologically advanced the human species got, the more isolated they seemed ...”
“We no longer live life. We consume it.”
“In the marketing society, we seek fulfillment but settle for abundance. Prisoners of plenty, we have the freedom to consume in stead of our freedom to find our place in the world.”
“It used to be that rebels were the type who wore leather jackets, rode motorcycles, smoked cigarettes and drank cheap domestic beer. Todays rebels are people who look at their world critically and ...”
“You do know you could find yourself charged with being a dominant species while under the influence of impulse-driven consumerism, don't you?”
“If you truly believe you need to pick a mobile phone that "says something" about your personality, don't bother. You don't have a personality. A mental illness, maybe - but not a personality.”
“There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate...”
“The child tends to be stripped of all social influences but those of the market place, all sense of place, function and class is weakened, the characteristics of region and clan, neighborhood or ki...”
“This is the typical fallacy on which all of CONSUMER AMERICA is based. Some piece of useless crap will make people like you.”
“These days only a guerrilla or a box man would want to cover up his identity to the extent of refusing the convenience of instalment buying. But I am that box man. A representative of anti-instalme...”
“Our identity is affected less and less by what we produce and more and more by what we consume.”
“We consume, as we produce, without any concrete relatedness to the objects with which we deal; We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or t...”
“Now, sorcery rules the world. Of course, most don't call it sorcery; indeed, many would be horrified by such a notion. Instead, they use words like ideology, politics, defence, security, patriotism...”
“We believe we are the consumers, but we are the consumed.”
