Instead of saying, «Look at this miserable
consumer society we live in,» it was, «Look how nice the consumer society is.»
Not exact matches
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.
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.
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).
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.»
Jesus teaches that
consumer society is spiritually dangerous because it encourages the materialist belief that «
life consists
in many possessions.»
Build comprehension skills and
consumer savvy with the advertisements kids see every day We
live in a
consumer society and advertising makes the...
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 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.»
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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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.
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.