I was disturbed by how many of my classmates disliked Thoreau, railed against him even, as if he (who claimed never to have learned anything of value from an old person) was an enemy and not a friend....
There is something self-destructive about Western technology and distribution. Whenever any consumer object is so excellent that it attracts a devoted following, some of the slide rule and computer ty...
Everything was fine, would continue to be fine, would eventually get even better as long as the supermarket did not slip.
Ownership breeds slavery: with every single thing that you acquire, comes a new worry of not losing that thing.
Once employed, the employed's friends are reduced to creatures that he only sees when he has a new problem, or, something new to show off.
With modern technology it is the easiest of tasks for a media, guided by a narrow group of political manipulators, to speak constantly of democracy and freedom while urging regime changes everywhere o...
Whoever that came up with the idea of people having to have 'a dream' sure knew how to keep these creatures called human beings preoccupied.
Escape is a commodity like anything else.
The more people have time to experience the joys of creativity, the less they will be consumers, especially of mass-produced culture. I see that as a kind of new wealth that counts for more than ownin...
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; tower...
I am obsessed with not being obsessed with acquiring material things.
Worth is not something you can buy for $39.99, nor something you can lose with 10 extra pounds. Self-judging people make good consumers. Start a revolution. Love yourself.
When we drug ourselves to blot out our soul's call, we are being good Americans and exemplary consumers.
Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn't see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. A...
The re-establishment of an ecological balance depends on the ability of society to counteract the progressive materialization of values. The ecological balance cannot be re-established unless we recog...
Ambition is greed without makeup.
Marketing's illusive promise is that this one product will change your life, make you feel more sexy, satisfy all your heart's desires.
Perhaps if we could popularise through the techniques of branding and consumerism, a different idea, a different narrative, perhaps the world can change. After all it changes constantly and incessantl...
When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, the last river poisoned, only then will we realize that one cannot eat money.
Perhaps we now need to engineer scarcity in our communications, in our interactions, and in the things we consume. Otherwise our lives become like a Morse code transmission that's lacking breaks - a s...
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