consumerism on an irrational capitalist model.
consumerism on an irrational capitalist model.
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.
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.
I think their brand is tarnished forever. I remember the Firestone 500 recall (in 1978). They got past that. But times have changed. Consumerism is huge today.
Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image.
It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.
The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.
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.
Pop culture is not about depth. It's about marketing, supply and demand, consumerism.
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.
Advertisers are usually strictly non-partisan and believe in the big tent policy, if not in politics then in consumerism.
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.
We belabour, I think, under a very heavy crust of consumerism really.
I condemn the national gay press for its emphasis on consumerism.
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.
My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children carry.
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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