I think there is a big disjuncture between what we are served up as consumers and what we are served up as citizens.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We believe we are the consumers, but we are the consumed.
We need to listen to consumers' needs.
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.
On the whole, we think of our consumers - other judges, lawyers, the public. The law that the Supreme Court establishes is the law that they must live by, so all things considered, it's better to have it clearer than confusing.
We're living at this funny time, where we're all urged to express ourselves as unique individuals, but on the other hand, we share a limited set of tools for doing that. It's easy to feel like nothing more than the sum of your consumer choices.
We have allowed ourselves to be defined by our consumption instead of by our ability to move beyond it.
I'm part of the consumer culture... I'm just using the space I am given to express something that is out of the space so I'm part of the consumer system but I'm advocating stepping out. Which is a contradiction but I could be part of he consumer system and say, 'let's consume even more.'
Our personal consumer choices have ecological, social, and spiritual consequences. It is time to re-examine some of our deeply held notions that underlie our lifestyles.
We belabour, I think, under a very heavy crust of consumerism really.
We're not in the business of shaping consumer demand. We respond to it.