“Santa Claus is a god. He's no less a god than Ahura Mazda, or Odin, or Zeus. Think of the white beard, the chariot pulled through the air by a breed of animal which doesn't ordinarily fly, the prayers (requests for gifts) which are annually mailed to him and which so baffle the Post Office, the specially-garbed priests in all the department stories. And don't gods reflect their creators' society? The Greeks had a huntress goddess, and gods of agriculture and war and love. What else would we have but a god of giving, of merchandising, and of consumption?” ThinkingGivingWarStoriesPrayerWhiteAnimalAirOfficeAnd LoveCreatorPostsGreekDepartmentPriestsGoddessConsumptionAgricultureSantaRequestBeardSanta ClausZeusChariotsPost OfficeOdinHuntressMerchandising Author:Donald E. Westlake
“But public works, economic protectionism, cheap money, "deficit-financed government spending," and "the animal spirits of the spendthrift in the service of boosting "consumption demand"... Doesn't Keynesianism simply appeal to the worst in human nature?” HumansGovernmentSpiritAnimalEconomicWorstHuman NatureDemandSpendingAppealsConsumptionDeficitGovernment SpendingProtectionismSpendthriftAnimal SpiritsKeynesianism Author:Ilana Mercer
“The consumption of animals - whether you're wearing them or eating them - is extraordinarily damaging to the planet. There are over a billion animals killed a year for food, half of which don't even get eaten. And there's over 50 million animals killed just for fashion.” YearsAnimalHalfMillionsFashionPlanetsEatingBillionsConsumptionOver 50 Author:Stella McCartney
“All things are flowing, even those that seem immovable. The adamant is always passing into smoke. The plants imbibe the materialswhich they want from the air and the ground. They burn, that is, exhale and decompose their own bodies into the air and earth again. The animal burns, or undergoes the like perpetual consumption. The earth burns, the mountains burn and decompose, slower, but incessantly.” WantBodySeemsEarthNatureChangeAnimalAirMountainAll ThingsPlantPassingPassingsSmokePerpetualConsumptionIncessantlyAdamant Book:The complete works of Ralph Waldo Emerson Source: The complete works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I became a vegetarian out of compassion for animals and to live as healthy as possible. I realized soon after that I was truly concerned with nonviolent consumption and my own health, a vegan diet was the best decision.” My OwnDecisionAnimalCompassionHealthyConcernedI RealizedDietsVegetarianVeganConsumptionVegetarianismAnimal CompassionVegan Diet Author:Davey Havok
“We are social animals and we have a hierarachical and unequal society. It is a class society, and the class system creates and perpetuates the social role of consumption. We display our class membership and solidify our class positioning in large part through money, through what we have. Consumption is a way of verifying what you have and earn.” WaySocialAnimalClassRolesDisplayConsumptionMembershipClass SystemSocial Roles Author:Juliet B. Schor