“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 do want to have that feeling that people are actively involved in something, rather than just consuming something. I suppose that's what it comes down to, because it's such a dominant capitalist society, everything becomes a consumer product. And I don't think that's really appropriate to the creative arts, really.” PeopleThinkingWantArtFeelingsCreativeProductsInvolvedConsumersAppropriateCapitalistDominantConsumingCreative Art Author:Jarvis Cocker
“If you do not know where the mushroom products you are consuming are grown, think twice before eating them.” IfsThinkingKnowsProductsEatingConsumingMushroomsThink Twice Author:Paul Stamets
“I'm not one to sit here and judge here. But I think it's funny that the people that condemn the adult industry the most are the ones consuming the product the most.” PeopleThinkingJudgingProductsIndustryAdultsConsuming Author:Sasha Grey
“Even as the government dominates the headlines, private entrepreneurs are busy every day working to improve products and services that improve our lives. They do it without taxing us or regulating us, or making us suffer through tedious elections or political debates. They make their products and offer them to us in a way that pleases the consuming public the most. We can choose whether we want them or not.” WayWantGovernmentPoliticalSufferingOur LivesProductsPleaseOffersElectionEntrepreneurBusyDebateConsumingHeadlinesTediousPolitical Debates Author:Llewellyn Rockwell
“More and more products are coming out in fiercely protective packaging designed to prevent consumers from consuming them. These days you have to open almost every consumer item by gnawing on the packaging.” ProductsConsumersThese DaysComing OutItemsProtectiveConsumingPackaging Book:Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus Source: Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus