#consumption

Traditional hedonism...was based on the direct experience of pleasure: wine, women and song; sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll; or whatever the local variant. The problem, from a capitalist perspective, is that there are inherent limits to all this. People become sated, bored...Modern self-illusory hedonism solves this dilemma because here, what one is really consuming are fantasies and day-dreams about what having a certain product would be like. ↗

— David Graeber

#capitalism #redefining-consumption #dreams

...eating is the purest mode of consumption. Our purchases are statements about our social class, our friends, and our beliefs. Buying something as continually necessary as food is an ongoing act of self-definition. ↗

— Evan D.G. Fraser

#consumption #food #necessity #people #food

Our culture tries to convince us on just about every front that more is better. More is a sign of wealth, luxury, power. Gone are the days when meals were moments of connection and conversation; now it’s all about consumption and calories. ↗

— Mary DeTurris Poust

#consumption #culture #eating #food #mealtime

This civilization is the impact of the world's consumption behavior. ↗

— Toba Beta

#civilization #consumption #impact #life #trend

The greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens. If only 10% of us do this, there is enough for everyone. Hence the futility of revolutionaries who have no gardens, who depend on the very system they attack, and who produce words and bullets, not food and shelter. ↗

— Bill Mollison

#gardens #revolution #revolutionaries #change

Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyful words in the English language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and enjoying. The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things. ↗

— Elise Boulding

#frugality #happiness #beauty

The level of potential physical productivity of a society depends on both the development of the intellect of its members, and a minimal standard of both demographic characteristics and of consumption. ↗

— Robert Trout

#characteristics #consumption #demographic #depends #development

Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it. ↗

— Ellen Willis

#also #art #consumption #corporate #frankenstein

Energy consumption matters both to our environment and our economy. ↗

— John Baldacci

#consumption #economy #energy #energy consumption #environment

It is not government's job to mandate responsibility on our behalf. We have the intelligence and good sense to make wise consumption choices for ourselves and our children. It is up to us to do what is best for our health and our children's health. ↗

— Michael Crapo

#best #children #choices #consumption #good