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When we drug ourselves to blot out our soul's call, we are being good Americans and exemplary consumers.

Tag: art soul america creativity consumerism destiny

Now, sorcery rules the world. Of course, most don't call it sorcery; indeed, many would be horrified by such a notion. Instead, they use words like ideology, politics, defence, security, patriotism, commerce, industry, marketing, consumerism and belief. But where there is power-seeking, especially power over others or for oneself, though also over oneself, and be it wittingly or unwittingly conjured up, make no mistake: there is sorcery afoot. It just comes in different shades and colours, that's all.

H.M. Forester

Tag: power consumerism sorcery

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I have every luxury imaginable, I own acres of land, and have enough money to buy the moon were it for sale. Though people think I have everything, it sometimes feels like my possessions own me; towering over me and reducing me into a small bundle of insignificance.

J. Matthew Nespoli

Tag: money wealth consumerism depression possessions

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For an artist is not a consumer, as our commercials urge us to be. An artist is a nourisher and a creator who knows that during the act of creation there is collaboration. We do not create alone.

Madeleine L'Engle

Tag: art consumerism creation artist creating create consumer

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I've bought these peanuts before. They're round, cubical, pock-marked, seamed. Broken peanuts. A lot of dust at the bottom of the jar. But they taste good. Most of all I like the packages themselves. You were right, Jack. This is the last avant-garde. Bold new forms. The power to shock.

Don DeLillo

Tag: consumerism avant-garde

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The ideological blackmail that has been in place since the original Live Aid concerts in 1985 has insisted that ‘caring individuals’ could end famine directly, without the need for any kind of political solution or systemic reorganization. It is necessary to act straight away, we were told; politics has to be suspended in the name of ethical immediacy. Bono’s Product Red brand wanted to dispense even with the philanthropic intermediary. ‘Philanthropy is like hippy music, holding hands’, Bono proclaimed. ‘Red is more like punk rock, hip hop, this should feel like hard commerce’. The point was not to offer an alternative to capitalism - on the contrary, Product Red’s ‘punk rock’ or ‘hip hop’ character consisted in its ‘realistic’ acceptance that capitalism is the only game in town. No, the aim was only to ensure that some of the proceeds of particular transactions went to good causes. The fantasy being that western consumerism, far from being intrinsically implicated in systemic global inequalities, could itself solve them. All we have to do is buy the right products.

Mark Fisher

Tag: capitalism consumerism philanthropy charity bono zizek capitalist-realism cultural-capitalism live-aid

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On ne peut pas tout avoir. Et puis d'abord où le mettrait-on?

Claude Chabrol

Tag: wit consumerism aphorism

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Alberta's two largest cities collected more in library fines than two higher levels of government levied against polluters in 2006-2007.

Gordon Laird

Tag: consumerism globalization alberta oil-industry tar-sands

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Ambition’ is ‘greed’ rebranded.