Americans used to be 'citizens.' Now we are 'consumers.
Vicki RobinTag: money consumerism americans consumer
If you live for having it all, what you have is never enough.
Vicki RobinTag: money consumerism consumer
I spent my time drinking and staring at a television in the airport bar. More death and destruction. Crime. Pollution. All the news stories were telling me to be frightened. All the commercials were telling me to buy things I didn´t need. The message was that people could only be passive victims or consumers.
John Twelve HawksTag: commercial news television tv consumer
In this image (watching sensual murder through a peephole) Lorrain embodies the criminal delight of decadent art. The watcher who records the crimes (both the artist and consumer of art) is constructed as marginal, powerless to act, and so exculpated from action, passive subject of a complex pleasure, condemning and yet enjoying suffering imposed on others, and condemning himself for his own enjoyment. In this masochistic celebration of disempowerment, the sharpest pleasure recorded is that of the death of some important part of humanity. The dignity of human life is the ultimate victim of Lorrain's art, thrown away on a welter of delighted self-disgust.
Jennifer BirkettTag: murder decadence artists masochism consumer decadent voyeurism diginty disempowerment self-disgust
Here, in Lorrain's poisoned little jewel of a tale (“The Man Who Made Wax Heads”) the consummate achievement of decadent art is caught in miniature. The genius of the artist entangles perpetrators and victims in a sticky web of perverse delights, in which exploitation becomes collusion, the ripples of guilt spread outward, and the real criminal slips away. In the end, responsibility is lodged firmly with the consumer, forced – he must confess – by his own perverse desires, to buy into the values of this particularly black market.
Jennifer BirkettTag: decadence guilt crime perversion criminal consumer lorrain collusion
Men who read it [beauty pornography] don't do so because they want women who look like that. The attraction of what they are holding is that it is not a woman, but a two-dimensional woman-shaped blank. The appeal of the material is not the fantasy that the model will come to life; it is precisely that she will not, ever. Her coming to life would ruin the vision. It is not about life.
Ideal beauty is ideal because it does not exist; The action lies in the gap between desire and gratification. Women are not perfect beauties without distance. That space, in a consumer culture, is a lucrative one. The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage, its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion.
Tag: sexuality equality self-esteem beauty society advertising feminism culture magazines cosmetics double-standards objectification body-image marketing pornography consumer images plastic-surgery diet-industry cosmetic-surgery mass-culture
As a business leader you have to ask yourself, “Am I creating a consumer environment that is conducive to loyalty?” If the answer is no, FIX IT!
Steve MaraboliTag: business leader loyalty consumer
Difference between TV and the internet was how far you sat from the screen. TV was an 8 foot activity, and you were a consumer. The internet was a 16 inch activity, and you participated. I think the sitting down thing is similar. You're not going to buy an armoir while standing on the subway.
Seth GodinTag: television internet marketing consumer shopping
The quicker you settle the debt,the quicker you can move forward with your life. Actions are bigger than words and get rid of that nasty debt".
"When you are able to buy your home versus renting. The sky is the limit on how much you can and will prosper in years to come.
"Good luck and start a budgeting today. Do not wait as no time will ever be the right time.
Tag: finances consumer ation debt-consolidation-loans
Every state's emblematic propaganda is worshiped by the consumer-citizen as a super-logo, a brand Juggernaut.
Bryant McGillTag: state propaganda logo brand consumer
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