From The Story of Stuff comes this great quote:
"Our enormously productive economy...demands that we make consumption our way of life, that we convert the buying and use of goods into rituals, that we seek our spiritual satisfaction, our ego satisfaction, in consumption.... We need things consumed, burned up, replaced and discarded at an ever-accelerating rate."
- Victor Lebow
P.S. The Story of Stuff debuted years ago, and now they have sequels, like The Story of Bottled Water, and The Story of Cosmetics. Fascinating anti-consumerism stories. (Those communists!)
I'm more and more anti-consumerism the older I get. It's a hard thing get out of the habit of doing though. It's pleasurable to consume.
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