Children have adopted a consumerist attitude - I dare you to entertain me.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
No matter how much control kids get over the media they watch, they are still utterly powerless when it comes to the manufacturing of brands. Even a consumer revolt merely reinforces one's role as a consumer, not an autonomous or creative being.
My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children carry.
The way we allow children to be advertised to is shocking. Eating is a learned behavior, and we've made these kids sitting ducks for all the bad messages about industrialized food. The fact that we allow that to go on is horrifying.
The joy of being a consumer is that it doesn't require thought, responsibility, self-awareness or shame: All you have to do is obey the first urge that gurgles up from your stomach. And then obey the next. And the next. And the next.
Our children, manipulated to become exemplary consumers, increasingly admit they do not feel 'in control' of their own Internet use.
What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don't actually improve their lives.
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.
Our own relentless search for novelty and social status locks us into an iron cage of consumerism. Affluence has itself betrayed us.
Consumer society tantalises us. We then try within ourselves to control the needs that are being constantly stimulated.
When you focus on the consumer, the consumer responds.
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