#consumerism

The re-establishment of an ecological balance depends on the ability of society to counteract the progressive materialization of values. The ecological balance cannot be re-established unless we recognize again that only persons have ends and only persons can work towards them. ↗

— Ivan Illich

#economy #environment #humanity #society #economy

Pop culture is not about depth. It's about marketing, supply and demand, consumerism. ↗

— Trevor Dunn

#consumerism #culture #demand #depth #marketing

Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn't see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love. Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy, but now they call this free will. At least the ancient Greeks were being honest. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#consumerism #free-will #god #goddess #greek

What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don't actually improve their lives. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#buy #consumerism #getting #improve #lives

It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#destructive #different #different set #family #family life

Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#consumerism #image #just #largely #make

It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#consumerism #depiction #governs #logic #mass

The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#consumerism #developments #eroded #family #life

I will go out of my way to avoid the shopping crowds and the extreme consumerism - I hate all that. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#consumerism #crowds #extreme #go #hate

I'm someone that examines culture and tries to break down why things are the way that they are whether its hip-hop music, sex, race, or consumerism. I try to examine it and scrutinize it to the point where I can write a song. ↗

— Macklemore

#consumerism #culture #down #examine #examines