How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.
Barbara KingsolverStichwörter: loss materialism
A mental disease has swept the planet: banalization. Everyone is hypnotized by production and comfort -- sewage system, elevator, bathroom, washing machine.
This state of affairs, which arose out of a struggle against poverty, overshoots its ultimate goal -- the liberation of humanity from material cares -- and becomes an obsessive image hanging over the present. Between love and a garbage disposal, young people of all countries have made their choice and prefer the garbage disposal. A complete and sudden change of spirit has become essential, by bringing to light forgotten desires and creating entirely new ones. And by an intensive propaganda in favor of these desires.
Gilles Ivain (aka Ivan Chtcheglov)
Stichwörter: materialism desire economy commodity situationist 37
The marriage of reason and nightmare that dominated the 20th century has given birth to an ever more ambiguous world. Across the communications landscape move the spectres of sinister technologies and the dreams that money can buy. Thermo-nuclear weapons systems and soft-drink commercials coexist in an overlit realm ruled by advertising and pseudo-events, science and pornography. Over our lives preside the great twin leitmotifs of the 20th century – sex and paranoia…In a sense, pornography is the most political form of fiction, dealing with how we use and exploit each other, in the most urgent and ruthless way.
J.G. BallardStichwörter: conformity consumerism media materialism captalism semiotic-glut
A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it.
Lionel ShriverStichwörter: yearning jealousy materialism want
They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.
Fyodor DostoevskyStichwörter: materialism
Japan likewise put her hopes of victory on a different basis from that prevalent in the United States. (...) Even when she was winning, her civilian statesmen, her High Command, and her soldiers repeated that this was no contest between armaments; it was pitting of our faith in things against their faith in spirit.
Ruth BenedictStichwörter: war faith united-states victory spirit japan materialism
Nin knew how much humans loved money, riches, and material things—though he never really could understand why. The more technologically advanced the human species got, the more isolated they seemed to become, at the same time. It was alarming, how humans could spend entire lifetimes engaged in all kinds of activities, without getting any closer to knowing who they really were, inside.
Jess C. ScottStichwörter: life money truth insightful society technology self-discovery consumerism materialism humankind cyberpunk modernity urban-fantasy elven-charm
That’s sad. How plastic and artificial life has become. It gets harder and harder to find something…real.” Nin interlocked his fingers, and stretched out his arms. “Real love, real friends, real body parts…
Jess C. ScottStichwörter: reality society technology reflection meaning materialism cyberpunk body-image plastic-surgery
Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book."
(Acceptance speech, National Book Award 2010 (Nonfiction), November 17, 2010)
Stichwörter: books technology materialism musicians pure-awesome
The supposedly immaterial soul, we now know, can be bisected with a knife, altered by chemicals, started or stopped by electricity, and extinguished by a sharp blow or by insufficient oxygen.
Steven PinkerStichwörter: soul brain materialism
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