Will an economic crash cure "Affluenza"?: An economy based on mindless consumption must die.

[marmar]

"Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed."

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

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"Be glad that you're greedy; the national economy would collapse if you weren't."

- Mignon McLaughlin

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"You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need."

- Vernon Howard

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"To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year."

- Elwyn Brooks White

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"Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need."

- From the movie Fight Club

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"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell."

- Edward Abbey

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"Who covets more, is evermore a slave."

- Robert Herrick

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"Contentment is natural wealth; luxury, artificial poverty."

- Socrates

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"The goal for the corporations is to maximise 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 "Creative 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."

- Noam Chomsky


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[GreenPartyVoter]

1. "Affluenza" I like that

[conscious evolution]

2. Great quotes.

I especially like what Chomsky has to say.He understands what is going on.

[dysfunctional press]

3. unfortunately, the second one has the most truth to it at this point.

:shrug: