Sentences with phrase «with rampant consumerism»

Charles Christian was the first speaker up with a look at «IT's future: Keeping up with rampant consumerism and delivering tech savvy solutions».

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We preach virtue while exporting a culture that is saturated with sex and violence and rampant consumerism.

Skylanders, the franchise filled with both dungeon - crawling fun and rampant consumerism, is back for a third installment.

Masterfully and humorously critiquing the rampant consumerism of the postwar Western world, the artist is best known for a series of 1960s sculptures that commodifed his own bodily residue, such as cans of his excrement, balloons filled with his breath, and eggs featuring his fingerprints.

Sourcing prevalent facets of modern Japanese culture like anime, Manga, and yokai horror films, Kenichi Yokono's meticulous carvings contrast rampant notions of globalization and consumerism with the overwhelming «cuteness» (or kawaii) found in his country's commercial vernacular.

• We reject the idea that parenting requires hard work • We pledge to leave our children alone • That should mean that they leave us alone, too • We reject the rampant consumerism that invades children from the moment they're born • We read them poetry and fantastic stories without morals • We drink alcohol without guilt • We reject the inner Puritan • We fill the house with music and laughter • We don't waste money on family days out and holidays • We lie in bed for as long as possible • We try not to interfere • We push them into the garden and shut the door so that we can clean the house • We both work as little as possible, particularly when the kids are small • Time is more important than money • Happy mess is better than miserable tidiness • Down with school • We fill the house with music and merriment

Someone, somewhere in the world, has to deal with the fall - out of our rampant consumerism, our affluenza, our addiction to fast fashion, and it's hardly fair to dump that on developing nations.

While I imagine every generation of young people has had some degree of reluctance to accept their parents» stuff, it's unfair of Boomers to expect kids to be saddled with the detritus of their rampant consumerism, even if that stuff is still functional.