Consumerism Quotes (21 Quotes)




    Everybody wants to go to India. It's got the largest middle-class in the world, and that means there's plenty of consumerism, the same elements that our (U.S.) economy has.






    In this age of consumerism film criticism all over the world - in America first but also in Europe - has become something that caters for the movie industry instead of being a counterbalance.


    Andy Warhol was a pioneer of looking at society as this machine. Warhol looked, in a good and bad way, at the power of media and celebrity images. He looked at violence, and he looked at fame. He looked at consumerism. He was looking at reality like a film, and editing it. His art is more about the idea than the execution of it.


    I wouldn't put a penny of my money there. There's also concern about the environmental impact of so much development. It's a city based on consumerism. I'm not sure that guarantees its role as a long-term holiday-home location. I wouldn't buy there.



    In some ways, I feel bad for Paris Hilton who finds herself trapped in a vortex of mindless, unfulfilling, consumerism. The day she stops shopping conspicuously will be the day advertisers controlling the Big Media brainwash machine turn the cameras elsewhere. You see, in the Cult of Celebrity, good-looking people are a dime a dozen, while good shoppers are invaluable.

    Health care consumerism is about more than high-deductible plans. The best-performing companies are using various tactics to engage employees and lower cost trends because they recognize that all employees may not be driven by financial incentives alone.

    By continually pushing the message that we have the right to gratification now, consumerism at its most expansive encouraged a demand for fulfillment that could not so easily be contained by products.

    Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism.

    In males, narcissism is something that has been associated with immaturity. Classically, it's something men are supposed to abandon to become adult males. Today, consumerism tells all males that they never need abandon their narcissism. That they never need grow up. Just so long as they buy the right products.


    Consumerism wants to make us as atomized as possiblebecause the more individualized we are the better consumers we are. This is why masculinity is so fragmented today and incoherentand irresponsible. It used to be the tradition. Literally passed down from father to son. But we live in a society where tradition stands in the way of profit. So bye-bye daddy.



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