As I walk through, a kind of amazed mantra starts running through my head: There is no end to the making and selling of things there is no end to the making and selling of things there is no end...
Man, it occurs to me, is a joyful, buying-and-selling piece of work. I have been wrong, dead wrong, when I've decried consumerism. Consumerism is what we are. It is, in a sense, a holy impulse. A human being is someone who joyfully goes in pursuit of things, brings them home, then immediately starts planning how to get more.
Tags: capitalism consumerism buying commercialism selling
The only way that I could figure they could improve upon Coca-Cola, one of life's most delightful elixirs, which studies prove will heal the sick and occasionally raise the dead, is to put bourbon in it.
Lewis GrizzardTags: humor drinking commercialism
We're developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won't be able to think.
Rod SerlingTags: commercialism twilight-zone
Our economy is based on spending billions to persuade people that happiness is buying things, and then insisting that the only way to have a viable economy is to make things for people to buy so they’ll have jobs and get enough money to buy things.
Philip SlaterTags: capitalism greed materialism economy commercialism endless-circles failed-systems pursuit-of-loneliness stuff-things
I think commercialism helps Christmas and I think that the more capitalism we can inject into the Christmas holiday the more spiritual I feel about it
Craig FergusonTags: spiritual capitalism christmas commercialism
There's a commercial break coming and I'm very excited about it and you know why? Because that's what keeps daddy in suits.
Craig FergusonTags: suits tv commercialism talk-show-host
That's why Credit card companies are evil. Are they sponsoring the show tonight? ... They are Evil.
Craig FergusonTags: money evil credit commercialism
The schedules are crammed with shows urging us to travel further, drive faster, build bigger, buy more, yet none of them are deemed to offend the rules, which really means that they don't offend the interests of business or the pampered sensibilities of the Aga class. The media, driven by fear and advertising, are hopelessly biased towards the consumer economy and against the biosphere.
George MonbiotTags: environment advertising media commercialism
How is the United States at once the most conservative and commercial AND the most revolutionary society on Earth?
Christopher HitchensTags: united-states conservatism radicalism commercialism
Sambit Bal may be right that this is a scandal the IPL needed. It certainly brings fans face-to-face with the tangled reality of their amusement, based as it is on a self-seeking, self-perpetuating commercial oligarchy issued licenses to exploit cricket as they please. Whether the fans care is another matter: one of the reasons Indians have embraced economic liberalisation so fervently is a shoulder-shrugging resignation about the efficiency and integrity of their institutions. Given the choice between Lalit Modi, with his snappy suits and his soi-disant 'Indian People's League', and the BCCI, stuffed with grandstanding politicians and crony capitalists, where would your loyalties lie?
Gideon HaighTags: integrity capitalism corruption india commercialism cricket indian-premier-league lalit-modi bcci sambit-bal sports-fans
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