We are so conformist; nobody is thinking. We are all sucking up stuff; we have been trained to be consumers, and we are all consuming far too much.
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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.
We believe we are the consumers, but we are the consumed.
We have allowed ourselves to be defined by our consumption instead of by our ability to move beyond it.
Consumer society tantalises us. We then try within ourselves to control the needs that are being constantly stimulated.
We're not in the business of shaping consumer demand. We respond to it.
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.
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.
The habits of the American consumer are changing; that's a reality.
Obviously we're a consumer nation and you have the power to influence these big corporations who are running the world right now through what you chose to, or not to, purchase.
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.
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