In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption.
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Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.Raoul Vaneigem
Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.
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In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
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Production and consumption are the nipples of modern society. Thus suckled, humanity grows in strength and beauty rising standard of living, all modern conveniences, distractions of all kinds, culture for all, the comfort of your dreams.
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Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.
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People without imagination are beginning to tire of the importance attached to comfort, to culture, to leisure, to all that destroys imagination.
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