Consumerism is at once the engine of America and simultaneously one of the most revealing indicators of our collective shallowness.
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Our own relentless search for novelty and social status locks us into an iron cage of consumerism. Affluence has itself betrayed us.
Shallowness and ignorance have been our lot in the mass consumer societies we inhabit, where we were too distracted to act politically, apart from periodically deputing political elites to take life-and-death decisions on our behalf.
We live in an era of consumerism and it's all about desire-based consumerism and it has nothing to do with things we actually need.
The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.
We belabour, I think, under a very heavy crust of consumerism really.
All of my work is meant to evoke a whole bunch of different layers of discord between the attraction and repulsion that we feel toward our consumer habits and our consumer lives.
The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.
I think a lot of self-identity and inner-personal development is hampered by consumerism and capitalism because we see ourselves as a reflection of the TV, rather than as a reflection of the people who are around us, truly.
We believe we are the consumers, but we are the consumed.
We aren't into the consumer space because that space is largely dominated by search and advertising, and it has a consumer face to it.
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