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Children have adopted a consumerist attitude - I dare you to entertain me.
When air conditioning, escalators, and advertising appeared, shopping expanded its scale, but also limited its spontaneity. And it became much more predictable, almost scientific. What had once been the most surprising became the most manipulated.
Pragmatism, consumerism, self-help moralism, and narcissism are simply the symptoms of a disease that is, at its heart, theological:
People are sometimes willing to sacrifice the pleasure they get from a particular consumption experience in order to project a certain image to others.
Consumerism is so weird. It's a sort of conspiracy we collude in. You'd think shoppers spending their hard-earned cash would be highly critical. You know that the manufacturers are trying to have you on.
I walked inside Macy's and faced the pathetic spectacle of a department store full of shoppers, none of whom were shopping for themselves. Without the instant gratification of a self-aimed purchase, everyone walked around in the tactical stupor of the financially obligated.
And recently, we installed another word in its place which, to their minds, has a wholly positive connotation. We say 'Gluttony'. They say 'Consumerism'.
DESIRE for money, and actually
There's a lot of bad isms floating around this world, but one of the worst is commercialism.
The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.
narrow-minded protectionism,
The result is that children now live in an "ethos of fantasy consumerism." Modern American childhood, says Cross,
Consumerism is the worship of the god of quantity; advertising is its liturgy. Advertising is schooling in false longing.
In my view, dissatisfaction is implicit in the fabric of consumerism.
[T]he category of 'consumer' is now a temporary behavior rather than a permanent identity.
The marketing people are always talking about something called 'consumers'. I have this image of a fat little man in baggy Bermuda shorts, a Hawaiian shirt, and a straw hat with beer-can openers dangling from it, clutching fistfuls of dollars.
Market forces which are driven by self indulgent needs designing the ultimate human experiences such as intimacy, love, solidarity and commitment as not enough and no longer needed, resulting in an ongoing emptiness and on the illusion of endless enjoyment.
Lust for possession and greed has ravaged the soul of humanity like a great cancer, metastasizing throughout society in the form of a nouveau post-human, consumer hedonism.
Our society is run by a managerial bureaucracy, by professional politicians; people are motivated by mass suggestion, their aim is producing more and consuming more, as purposes in
themselves.
The consumer mentality - we like something, what other flavor does it come in? We like that TV show, does it come in a book form? Does it come in a capsule? How about a soup?
Society is secretly driven by sales
The joy of being a consumer is that it doesn't require thought, responsibility, self-awareness or shame: All you have to do is obey the first urge that gurgles up from your stomach. And then obey the next. And the next. And the next.
Should consumerism be the last thing we accomplish as a species, after all this evolution and the miraculous series of accidents that granted our sentience? Would that not be an utterly dull and inane end to our history?
This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.
Brand loyalty - that nebulous emotional connection people have with certain companies, which turns them into defenders and advocates for corporations who don't give a shit.
People are hungry for community. They're hungry for meaning in a society that is oriented around the production and consumption of consumer goods.
Consumers have not been told effectively enough that they have huge power and that purchasing and shopping involve a moral choice.
THE MISCONCEPTION: Both consumerism and capitalism are sustained by corporations and advertising. THE TRUTH: Both consumerism and capitalism are driven by competition among consumers for status.
The consumer society, directed at making us happy, achieves the opposite. It encourages us to spend money we do not have, to buy things we do not need, for the sake of a happiness that will not last.
Status-driven, conspicuous consumption thrives from the language of novelty.
Consumer: A person who is capable of choosing a president but incapable of choosing a bicycle without help from a government agency.
Commerce is greedy. Ideology is blood-thirsty.
I'm not a consumer. I hate buying clothes. I don't have a mobile. I just don't need things. I don't like things.
The comfortable life is a slippery slope toward the consumer life.
Buying is an activity understood by economists. Shopping is a phenomenon of interest to anthropologists and sociologists.
To assign to everybody his proper place in society is the task of the consumers. Their buying and abstention from buying is instrumental in determining each individual's social position.
Consumer culture and the capitalist mindset have taught us to substitute acts of personal consumption (or enlightenment) for organised political resistance
Money. The dark obsession of the human race.
Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.
We have become a nation not of citizens but of consumers.
We live in a world that tells us not to care, to consume everything in sight. It tells us that being cool and being an individual actually means buying what everyone else is buying and doing what everyone else is doing.
You are not just a consumer. You are a citizen of this Earth and your responsibility is not private but public, not individual but social.
The working class has been turned into a consuming class - a situation has been created where people value their worth by what they can afford.
Greediness of getting more deprives ... the enjoyment of what it had got.
A worker's paradise is a consumer's hell.
The cultural propaganda embodied in two liquor advertisements, "Living well is the best revenge" and "Sip it with arrogance," have a curious, perhaps demonic appeal. Consumerism indeed has its own spirituality.
The capitalist culture of consumption ... does not provide meaningful sustenance for large numbers of people.
Greed is the assumption that it is all for my consumption.
A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.
The thirst to know and understand, a large and liberal discontent.
Liberalism, the dominant ideology of our time, has been dangerously distorted by the impact of economism. It is that impact which has knocked the citizen off his pedestal and replaced him with the consumer.
Since the 1970s, we have witnessed the forces of market fundamentalism strip education of its public values, critical content, and civic responsibilities as part of its broader goal of creating new subjects wedded to consumerism, risk-free relationships, and the destruction of the social state.
It seems that we have been born only to consume and to consume, and when we can no longer consume, we have a feeling of frustration, and we suffer from poverty, and we are auto-marginalized.
Laissez-faire, supply and demand-one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egotism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause-it is the gospel of despair.
By 'consumer society', I mean one in which commodities are increasingly used to express the core values of that society but also become the principal form through which people come to see, recognise and understand those values.
The new breed of consumer is not as trusting, as loyal, or as malleable as those of the past.
Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.
Probably the worst thing that has happened to our understanding of reality has been the acceptance of ourselves as consumers.
The advertising profession transformed the capitalist model of buyers making
rational choices in a free market into a consumerist model where the buyer was
driven by irrational emotions associated with particular brand names and/or
products.
At the tail end of the great global boom, their old richer consumers are behaving more like new poorer ones, also increasingly concerned about cost, quality, and safety.
All of my work is meant to evoke a whole bunch of different layers of discord between the attraction and repulsion that we feel toward our consumer habits and our consumer lives.
The market economy-capitalism-is a social system of consumers' supremacy.
Critics of consumer capitalism like to think that consumers are manipulated and controlled by those who seek to sell them things, but for the most part it's the other way around: companies must make what consumers want and deliver it at the lowest possible price.
People buy things they don't need, with money they don't have, to impress people they don't like.
Our personal consumer choices have ecological, social, and spiritual consequences. It is time to re-examine some of our deeply held notions that underlie our lifestyles.
Consumerism provides no psychological satisfaction, because there is no limit to our desires for things that we never needed in the first place.
People feel powerless and useless in the world. But they can buy something. It can give them a sense of value, of power.
All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out
Materialism and self-centeredness are the great vices of our age.
She'd been fed anti-consumerist bullshit by her parents but didn't understand simple economics.
The Ideal Consumer is someone who is constantly dissatisfies, constanly needs more and more products in order to feel better.
Please, please, stop referring to yourselves as 'consumers.' OK? Consumers are different than citizens. Consumers do not have obligations, responsibilities and duties to their fellow human beings.
Need theories can thrive only in a context where the emphasis is on the individual rather than the community and where consumption is a way of life.
We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession. Murder, crime, poverty, these things don't concern me. What concerns me are celebrity magazines, television with 500 channels, some guy's name on my underwear. Rogaine, Viagra, Olestra ...
I think about capitalism, consumerism, our consumptive nature as a species approaching the 21st century. I certainly don't have the answers.
The conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
In a community where public services have failed to keep abreast of private consumption things are very different. Here, in an atmosphere of private opulence and public squalor, the private goods have full sway.
2. Greed, or acquisitive desire.
We have become a society of indulgent consumers resulting in rapidly increasing debt both personally and as a nation.
The "cumulative effects" of unbridled commercialism, however difficult to assess, constitute one key to the impact of growing up in the core of the world's marketing system. Minimally, it suggests unpreparedness for, and lack of interest in, the world that exists outside the shopping mall.
Something new seems to be at work in the contemporary world - a process that is eating away the very heart of social life, not merely by putting salesmanship in place of moral virtue, but by putting everything - virtue included - on sale.
It is the effect of scarcity; one's rules of propriety make one thirst for the improper.
The consumer today is the victim of the manufacturer who launches on him a regiment of products for which he must make room in his soul.
Obsession with a consumerist lifestyle, above all when few people are capable of maintaining it, can only lead to violence and mutual destruction.
This over-consumption is also manifest in our use of raw materials. It can even be found in our dietary habits ... People are well aware of this. The root of the problem lies in a selfish world view which inflates personal consumption beyond the essential.
In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.
We are so conformist; nobody is thinking. We are all sucking up stuff; we have been trained to be consumers, and we are all consuming far too much.
The consumer game is tougher than pro football and more conniving than chess. One side [industry] invents the rules and the other side [consumers] is left to guess what they are.
As consumers we are incredibly discerning, we sense where has been great care in the design, and when there is cynicism and greed.
What is assumed to be the materialisation of the inner truth of the self is in fact an idealisation of the material - objectified - traces of consumer choices.
People no longer want to see themselves primarily as consumers, but as activists.
The unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism.
Feckless as it was for Bush to ask Americans to go shopping after 9/11, we all too enthusiastically followed his lead, whether we were wealthy, working-class or in between. We spent a decade feasting on easy money, don't-pay-as-you-go consumerism and a metastasizing celebrity culture.
For the producers, there was no reason to produce. You get money, but you couldn't use this money. For consumers, you could have money, but you have no way to use it because you go to the shop and see nothing.
Some people make stuff; other people have to buy it. And when we gave up making stuff, starting in the 1980s, we were left with the unique role of buying ... we shopped till we dropped, all right, face down on the floor.
People seemed to have this unstoppable need to give and receive stuff they could easily afford to go out and get for themselves anyway.
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.
America, as everybody knows, is a country of many contradictions, and a big contradiction for a long time has been between a very aggressive form of capitalism and consumerism against what might be called a kind of moral or civic impulse.
In a relentlessly commercial culture, the communication of our private meanings has been vaguely corrupted around the edges by the toxic idioms of merchandising.
We cannot buy what we need for an ideal life in stores, so we have become habitual shoppers who come up short again and again and therefore have to head back for more.