Sentences with phrase «consumer society we live»

Instead of saying, «Look at this miserable consumer society we live in,» it was, «Look how nice the consumer society is.»

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The company claims (through its website) to focus on «environmentally safe solutions [that] benefit society and enhance the daily lives of the consumer,» with the goal «to establish a leading position in the E [lectric] V [ehicle] industry.»

In today's society (the age of information overload), it's all too easy to rely on becoming a consumer of consensus datapoints as opposed to embracing a Life of Doing.

Never mind that a cheap currency makes it more expensive for Chinese households and businesses to buy things from the outside world, depressing standards of living and hampering the transition to a consumer society that China's leaders ostensibly want.

In the West, our modern consumer society has now debased this concept to be the equality to buy and consume, to trade and to travel, to build up a life of toys and trinkets.

For Berry, the economics of our technological society «is dedicated to the role of moving the greatest amount of natural resources, with the greatest possible efficiency, through the consumer society, to the waste heap that is not the source of new life by way of fertilizing the fields and farms, but a waste heap that is dead - end at best and often enough a toxic source of further death.

The dumping of all adults into a unified life style called marriage may guarantee to a military empire the child - warriors it needs and to an economic empire the consumer - citizens it is greedy for — but it can not guarantee the existence of the authentic cell of society which is love - justice.

You can have what you «have» in America, a hugely wasteful unsustainable consumer society that lives in constant fear of everything, neighbours, government, growing old, failing to keep up with the Joneses etc etc

Because our culture has for so long insidiously taught citizens that the good life is measured by their economic success and participation in the consumer society, it is small wonder so many believe that politics is a burden that conflicts with their pursuit of what really matters.

Consider the way the predominantly marketing and consumer society in which most Westerners live has transformed virtually all traditional institutions (governments, corporations, universities) and created new or transformed institutions (the media, entertainment and leisure, professional sports, communications).

Fortunately, a large majority of poor and religious Indians do not live within the modern culture of materialism; they are invulnerable to the glamour of the CEO, the investment banker, the PR executive, the copywriter, and other gurus of the West's fully organized consumer societies.

Even if everybody in America enjoyed excellent health care, decent housing, educational opportunities, and lots of consumer goodies, but the wealthy and powerful lived in gated communities and held the rest of us in disdain, we'd think our society sick rather than healthy.

The movement emphasized forms of media and consumer society that DeBord called «the society of the spectacle» in which authenticity is absorbed into a world where «all that once was directly lived has become mere representation.»

A new way of living leads to the concept of a new sort of society whose values are different from those of the consumer society designed around the factory.

Jesus teaches that consumer society is spiritually dangerous because it encourages the materialist belief that «life consists in many possessions.»

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At the time, they described the challenge this way: «Rapid technological innovations, new forms of ownership, and changing social expectations on the part of both producers and consumers make it difficult for any of us holding a job to live up to the values of the domain, the values of society, and our own system of values.»

This consumer proposition encompasses three main pillars; Intelligent Power, which is brought to life through the LEAF's advanced new 40kW e-powertrain, with improved energy efficiency, increased torque and power output for more exciting driving; Intelligent Driving, which is technology designed to improve driving confidence, enhance safety and reduce stress; and Nissan Intelligent Integration, the linking of the car to wider society via connectivity and to energy grids via unique bi-directional charging technology.

While it's not a component of Lincoln Heritage's life insurance coverage, each policy does come with a Funeral Consumer Guardian Society membership.

Our consumer society encourages people to «lease their lifestyle» and live on credit, and in that climate learning to save money for the future is a big step to take.

She gets kidnapped by someone who is trying to make people rethink their lives, with each room they are forced to work through representing an issue in the «consumer society.»

On the other hand, can we afford to live without them in a largely secular, consumer driven, free enterprise society?

Online and offline surveillance accompanied by the consumer capitalist culture within today's society are the main issues surrounding his work, in association with current and future utopian environments, the continued automation of our daily lives in relation to the internet of things and the various cultures associated with online communities.

He gives us the opportunity to see the systems we live by — humankind, dwarfed by its own industries and consumer societies.

But while designers and consumers hungrily cycle through the latest trends, there is one section of society woefully underrepresented on the runway: Those who live with disabilities.

He looks to objects, such as these mirrors, as stored memories about life in a consumer society and as sources of nostalgia, encouraging «comfort with one's own mental chaos.»

Practitioners such as Morris, Donald Judd, Carl Andre and Frank Stella argued that only a stripped - down art could shed any light on the transactions between people and things, which a consumer society represents to its citizens as the essence of living.

The Korean Cultural Center Washington, D.C. proudly presents â $ œBetweenâ $, a solo exhibition of cutting - edge Korean contemporary artist Kim Ji Min that creatively explores the psychology of life in our consumer - driven society, on view June 26 â $ «July 20.

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Now, my grandchildren are the joy of my life, but I know how uncertain their future is and all the baubles of our consumer society can not compensate for the rich wonders and generosity of nature.

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For this reason, lawyers at the firm belong to organizations such as the Orange Country Trial Lawyers Association, American Association for Justice and Consumer Attorneys of California — groups that work to ensure the American people's right to live in a society predicated on a fundamental sense of fairness, honesty and accountability.

While it's not a component of Lincoln Heritage's life insurance coverage, each policy does come with a Funeral Consumer Guardian Society membership.

How can you not talk about the consumer society in which we live when you hear couples say thing like, «I'm not getting my needs met.

«When we communicate, we need to keep in mind that consumers live in an «I need it now» society,» he says.