“Our present culture, however, specializes in inflaming endless lust for possessions with advertisements that constantly convince us that we need more (particularly to create the ease we have never found). The marketers don't tell us much about their products, but they spend a great deal of energy (and enormous amounts of money) appealing to our fears and dreams. Thus, the idolatry of possessions plays to the deeper idolatry of our selves-and in an endlessly consuming society, persons are always remaking themselves with new belongings.” NeedsPersonsSelfPlayDreamCultureFoundEnergyDealsProductsAmountPossessionDeeperLustEndlessEnormousEaseConvinceBelongingConsumerismConsumingIdolatryAdvertisementsOverconsumptionMarketersConvince UsFears And Dreams Author:Marva Dawn
“I felt if I went chronologically, I'd get bogged down in childhood and that's part of our culture of complaint in America. This endless wailing about your childhood.” IfsAmericaCultureFeltChildhoodOur ChildrenEndlessYour ChildrenComplaintsWailing Author:Edmund White
“In the course of evolution nature has gone to endless trouble to see that every individual is unlike every other individual....Physically and mentally, each one of us is unique. Any culture which, in the interests of efficiency or in the name of some political or religious dogma, seeks to standardize the human individual, commits an outrage against man's biological nature.” MenHumansPoliticalCultureCoursesNamesIndividualInterestReligiousGoneTroubleEvolutionUniqueEndlessCommitDogmaEfficiencyOutrageReligious Dogma Author:Aldous Huxley
“I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims of crime, but perpetuates the idea of retribution, thus maintaining the endless cycle of violence in our culture. It is a cruel and useless substitute for the elimination of those conditions--poverty, unemployment, homelessness, desperation, racism, greed--which are at the root of most punished crime. The crimes of the rich and powerful go mostly unpunished.” WayDoeIdeasProblemCulturePowerfulPovertyRichViolenceConditionsCrimeRacismRootsVictimGreedSolveConvincedEndlessUselessCyclesSubstitutesPretendingUnemploymentDesperationMaintainingHomelessnessRetributionImprisonmentEliminationCycle Of Violence Author:Howard Zinn