395 Quotes About Consumerism

Consumerism tells us that in order to be happy we must consume as many products and services as possible. If we feel that something is missing or not quite right, then we probably need to buy a product (a car, new clothes, organic food) or a service (housekeeping, relationship therapy, yoga classes). Every television commercial is another little legend about how consuming some product or service will make life better.

There is massive propaganda for everyone to consume. Consumption is good for profits and consumption is good for the political establishment.

the mall crowds swaying like wind-blown grass, a field of flesh shot through with sudden eddies of need and gratification

If i bought something that didn't warrant more than three wearings, I did not need it.

We consumer and become exactly what we create. In all times.

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It used to be that rebels were the type who wore leather jackets, rode motorcycles, smoked cigarettes and drank cheap domestic beer. Today’s rebels are people who look at their world critically and observe the ensnaring patterns of the consumeristic lifestyle." (Life Hacks, p.50

All we do is work to maximise our consumption privileges and to be able to tell people at parties that we’re a lawyer, an artist or a police officer.

The prose is deeply inspired by the tension between post- totalitarianism and consumer democracy. I am constantly probing the soft fleshy parts of the American dream.