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Showing Original Post only (View all)The brain-wasting disease called consumerism ...... [View all]
Last edited Fri Nov 23, 2012, 10:46 PM - Edit history (1)
[font size="4"]"The goal for the corporations is to maximize profit and market share. And they also have a goal for their target, namely the population. They have to be turned into completely mindless consumers of goods that they do not want. You have to develop what are called 'Created Wants'. So you have to create wants. You have to impose on people what's called a Philosophy of Futility. You have to focus them on the insignificant things of life, like fashionable consumption. I'm just basically quoting business literature. And it makes perfect sense. The ideal is to have individuals who are totally disassociated from one another. Whose conception of themselves, the sense of value is just, 'how many created wants can I satisfy?' We have huge industries, public relations industry, monstrous industry, advertising and so on, which are designed from infancy to mold people into this desired pattern."[/font]
-- Noam Chomsky
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You've got to FIGHT! For your RIGHT! To BUY!! BUY, BUY, BUT or DIE, DIE, DIE !!!
reACTIONary
Nov 2012
#16
And what is wrong with expecting a retail industry to meet our needs 365 days a year?
BlueStreak
Nov 2012
#32
Phones are a big deal. Ask someone whose phone has just died and see if they miss it or not.
dkf
Nov 2012
#20
We did just fine for years and years before cell phones were even invented.
totodeinhere
Nov 2012
#24