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is a strange sort of conspiracy we collude in.

Consumerism is so weird. It's a sort of conspiracy we collude in. You'd think shoppers spending their hard-earned cash would be highly critical. You know that the manufacturers are trying to have you on. J. G. Ballard

is like modern art, its mirror image, guided as it is by the message 'make it new'

Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image.

is soul-destroying. The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people. Karl Marx

is a form of shackles. The sovereign knows that in promoting amusement, the increase of artificial wants only binds so many more chains upon the people.

Sovereigns always see with pleasure a taste for the arts of amusement and superfluity, which do not result in the exportation of bullion, increase among their subjects. They very well know that, besides nourishing that littleness of mind which is proper to slavery, the increase of artificial wants only binds so many more chains upon the people. Jean-Jacques Rousseau IT IS MANIFESTLY CONTRARY TO T

is, in America, grounded in the idea that to consume is not to buy; it is to dream.

In this country there is a universal third person, the man we all want to be. Advertising has discovered this man. It uses him to express the possibilities open to the consumer. To consume in America is not to buy; it is to dream. Advertising is the suggestion that the dream of entering the third person singular might possibly be fulfilled.

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