CONSUMERISM
Ralph Bakker:
– Consumerism is used to control the populace by building a society in which political obedience is rewarded with shinny objects.
– Consumerism tampers with human emotions by making people feel empty so they can fill the void with crap.
– Consumerism is based on false dreams; this is why avid consumers tend to be extremely delusional.
– Consumerism is based on false dreams that get the masses to believe that the hell of consuming one’s life away is a utopia.
– Consumerist culture is very conformist in nature because creativity is the antithesis of consumption.
– Consumerism strips away an individual’s identity by shifting their gaze away from political consciousness towards stuff.
– Consumer culture turns people into status-seeking fiends; this is why some people cannot be seen in public without brand name accessories.
– Consumption is used by the ruling class to turn the children of the people into future corporate wage-slaves, aided by credit.
– Consumerism has taken over human lives like an infectious, psychological, disease spreading manically from mind to mind.
– The consumerist-society is an oxymoronic term because consumerism is based on isolation and mental conditioning.
– Consumer culture is anti-creative because it laughs at anyone who questions the corporate ideology of the whole rotting system.
– Many people are addicted to buying stuff because the upper class profits immensely from this addiction.
– Credit is used to accelerate mindless consumption; this is the ultimate method of turning workers into wage-slaves.
– Consumerism is designed to create an anxious populace; this is why children are increasing hyper and lacking in focus.
– Consumerist society is based on mindless mimicry; this is why the capitalist system is losing all sense of creativity and originality.
– Consumerism is dependent on the ideology of instant gratification which turns people into addicts to immediate satisfaction.
– Consumerism turns children into obese symbols of an obese capitalist culture.
– Capitalist profit from consumerism by using it to drive a system based on massive debts.
– Consumer culture turns people into status-seeking fiends; this is why many people will prostitute themselves for brand name items.
– Consumer culture turns people into status-seeking fiends who chase brands like wild maniacs for the sake of peer approval.
– Consumer culture turns people into status-seeking fiends who establish deep relationships with brands instead of human beings.
– Consumerism turns children into apolitical junkies who stare at television ads, ironically enough, in search of meaning.
– Consumerism is not a byproduct of human nature; it is a disease which turns loving human beings into insane consumptive zombies.
– Many people are addicted to buying stuff and their addiction is the only reason why the obese capitalist system continues to survive.
– Mass consumption is mass destruction because it destroys the ecosystem and its ability to sustain itself.
– The consumer-society will destroy itself because it destroys the intellectual capacity of those who believe in it.
– The ideology of consumerism is part and parcel of the imperialist agenda; this is why consumer societies lack revolutionary instincts.
– The consumerist-society is an oxymoronic term because consumerism is designed to crush social solidarity.
– Hollywood promotes consumerism by creating visual flows that are designed to turn citizens into mimicking consumer-fools.
– Consumerism deforms human relationships by putting the focus on transactions rather than personal interactions and ideas of each other.
– Consumerism is designed to create an anxious populace; this is why many people run around chasing gadgets instead of political freedom.
– Consumerism strips away an individual’s identity by turning them into a needy, infantile, consumer.
– The act of consumption is political because in buying products and brands citizens are submitting to the materialist formulation of life.
– The act of consumption is political because when citizens consume products they are subscribing to the ideology of the corporate elite.
– Consumerism tampers with human emotions by exploiting the natural need to belong and turning it towards consumption habits.
– Consumerism is based on false dreams that turn human beings into delusional fanatics of trinkets and gadgets.
– Consumer culture turns people into status-seeking fiends who will do anything, absolutely anything, for luxury brands.
– Consumer society is self destructive because it creates monstrous human beings with violent, insatiable, appetites.
– Consumer culture turns people into status-seeking fiends, destroying their soul by becoming entirely superficial.
– Credit is used to accelerate mindless consumption; this is how the sick capitalist society perpetuates its dying self.
– Consumerism is based on false dreams that penetrate the psychology of the individual and holds them hostage to materialism.
– Mass consumption is mass destruction because it destroys people’s abilities to communicate about anything more than stuff.
– Advertising is used to brainwash people into consumption by making people feel constantly lacking in something or another.
– Consumerism is used by the ruling class to keep the human dialogue focused on stuff instead of political change.
– The consumer society brings out avarice out of human beings, making them constantly want more regardless of the wastefulness.
– Capitalist profit from consumerism by turning human existence into a pathetic sequence of consumptive decisions.
– Consumerism fosters narcissism by promoting celebrity personalities that are highly egotistical and narcissistic.
– Consumerism is dependent on the ideology of instant gratification which turns human beings into drugged up ‘happiness’ addicts.
– The consumer society brings out a general sickness, social apathy, a malaise, a miasma, a perpetual nausea.
– Consumer society is self destructive because it sells a vision of a utopia while laying human creativity to waste.
– Consumerism leads to widening the gap between rich and poor because it puts all power in the hands of those making the crap.
– Consumerism turns children into mental slaves to the ideology of corporate commercialism.
– Consumerism has become its own religion; this is why some people spend $700 on True Religion jeans.
– Responsible citizens must reject consumerism by demanding a society that serves its citizens, not merely conditions them.
– Consumerism captures people’s psychology by turning the human dialogue into an intricate advertisement for goods and services.
– Consumerism has taken over human lives; it has destroyed the psychology of millions of citizens, turning them into shopaholic slaves.
– Consumption is a drug because many people are willing to prostitute their minds in order to attain disgusting luxuries.
– Consumerist culture is very conformist in nature; this is why people who consume avidly are indifferent to political repression.
– The act of consumption is political because when a citizen buys corporate brands they are legitimizing the rule of the corporate elite and bankers.
– Consumerism strips away an individual’s identity by filling their heart with materialistic, vain, ambitions.
– Consumption is a very psychological act because buying the products of corporations makes the populace complicit in its own oppression.
– Responsible citizens must reject consumerism by spreading the seeds of dissent against a decadent social system.
– Consumerism is not a byproduct of human nature; it is anti-human, misanthropic, it reduces people to consuming cattle.
– Consumerism fosters narcissism by killing people’s abilities to relate to each other outside of the ‘who’s better than who’ paradigm.
– Consumerist society is based on mindless mimicry, making it a society which is very bland and fascistically uniform.
– Credit is used to accelerate mindless consumption; this is why many people refinance their homes so they can buy utter crap.
– Consumerism is capitalism’s way of infiltrating human life and turning it into a machine that consumes itself.
– The Consumerist-Society is spiritually dead because it leaves no room for creativity, everything must serve The Economy Boogieman.
– Consumerism tampers with human emotions by using nostalgia to ramp up Christmas consumption.
– Consumerism is used by the ruling class to control the conversation between friends, family members and strangers.
– Consumerism leads to widening the gap between rich and poor because the poor are brainwashed into desiring the products of the rich.
– Consumerism has become its own religion; this is why the masses go to pray at the mall during Holidays.
– Consumerism is used by the ruling class to ensure that the dominant narrative is that of consuming, of stuff, of material desires.
– Consumerism is designed to create an anxious populace because an anxious populace is a politically impotent one.
– Consumerism is dependent on the ideology of instant gratification; this is why ad campaigns make grotesque promises of immediate happiness.
– Consumerism obliterates human spirituality because its goal is to transform human beings into consuming machines.
– Consumerist culture is very conformist in nature because capitalists long to reduce human beings to easily categorized consumers.
– Consumerism is designed to imprison people in debt; this debt then works to coerce them into a lifetime of wage-slavery.
– Consumption is a very psychological act; this is why the majority of consumers are psychologically and thus politically passive.
– Consumerism leads to widening the gap between rich and poor because it destroys the collective identity of the populace.
– Citizens can resist the consumerist impulse by refusing to participate in holidays which are mere commercial charades.
– Consumerism captures people’s psychology by turning the flow of information towards consumer products and services.
– Brands are used to brand people into consumer-slaves to the corporate agenda.
– Consumerist society is based on mindless mimicry; this is why teenagers who choose to deviate are ostracized and bullied.
– Consumer society is self destructive because it is highly dependent on the violent intensity of hedonistic gratification.
– The act of consumption is political because at some point consumers are willing to forfeit all political rights for their dose of stuff.
– Consumerism is capitalism’s way of infiltrating human life and rendering it creatively, spiritually and intellectually obsolete.
– Responsible citizens must reject consumerism or risk having their lives consumed by its ravenous forces.
– Consumerism is self-destructive because it eats away at a human being’s mind and visions.
– Consumer culture is anti-creative because it values stuff over ideas.
– Consumer culture is anti-creative because it does not allow anyone the chance to exist outside of its money-based prisons.
– Consumerism fosters narcissism by planting the seed of self-differentiation based on consumption habits.
– Consumerism is used to control the populace by offering gadgets and trinkets in return for political submission.
– The Consumerist-Society is spiritually dead because it warps human interactions into financial transactions.
– Consumerism tampers with human emotions by making people who don’t have certain products feel like failures.
– Consumerism does not bring leisure to the human race; it brings wantonness, neediness and a disgusting sense of apathy.
– Consumerism is capitalism’s way of infiltrating human life and turning it into a bestial system of consuming the world around it.
– Brands are used to brand people into infantile consumers who feel stupidly empowered by expensive logos and designer objects.
– The consumer society brings out fear out of human beings, the fear of being left behind on some imagined race towards prosperity.
– Consumerism has taken over human lives and only revolution can surgically remove it from the mass psychology of the people.
– Consumerism deforms human relationships by getting people to focus on product releases instead of each other’s thoughts and ideas.
– Many people are addicted to buying stuff because the mass media is a machine designed to intensify consumption.
– Consumption is a very psychological act because it is an expression of people’s mental need to belong to a broken society.
– Consumerism obliterates human spirituality because it destroys a person’s ability to see the world outside of the prism of consumption.
– Many people are addicted to buying stuff because we live in a society that encourages this addiction.
– Consumerism is designed to imprison people in debt; at some point someone has to pay for all the things that are being overconsumed.
– Consumerism is based on false dreams; this is why the capitalist state sponsors lotteries that encourage people to dream away.
– Capitalist profit from consumerism by using it to take back what little allowance the populace is given.
– Consumerism is not a byproduct of human nature; it strips the human mind of all that makes it brilliant and bold.
– Responsible citizens must reject consumerism and adopt a political ideology that revolutionizes citizens instead of numbing them down.
– The consumer society brings out self-hatred out of human beings, so that they are constantly buying a new self-image.
– Consumerism is used to control the populace by promising them ‘happiness’ if they submit to a lifetime of spineless wage-slavery.
– Consumer culture is anti-creative because it values productivity over creation.
– Consumerism has become its own religion; this is why Apple fanatics called Steve Jobs their iGod.
– Consumer culture is anti-creative because it is about selling, buying, consuming; never about knowing and understanding.
– Consumption is used by the ruling class to turn rebellious, bold, children into slaves to material objects and desires.
– Consumption is used by the ruling elite to keep the children of the exploited people amused and distracted by nonsense.
– Consumption is used by the ruling class to ensure that children’s minds remain within the sick worldview of capitalism.
– Citizens can resist the consumerist impulse by defying the advertising industry and deconstructing the shit out of it.
– The Consumerist-Society is spiritually dead because it turns human energy into a mere lubricant for more mindless consumption.
– Consumerist society is based on mindless mimicry; this is why many people fail to create anything authentic in their entire lives.
– Hollywood promotes consumerism by creating the impression that the US is a paradise of consumption,even as 10 million in the US are homeless.
– Hollywood promotes consumerism by selling a vision of life in which everything is available for consumption, all the time.
– Consumerism turns children into obedient automatons that follow orders because following orders is rewarded with stuff.
– The citizen becomes the wage-slave when he sacrifices his intellectual freedom for the sake of brand name rubbish.
– Consumerism obliterates human spirituality because it destroys a person’s ability to see the world outside of the prism of consumption.
– Consumerism has become its own religion; this is why the masses go to pray at the mall during Holidays.
– Consumerist culture is very conformist in nature; this is why advertisements are full of social stereotypes.
– Citizens can destroy their inner consumer by destroying their attachments to the poisons of consumerist-society.
– Consumerism does not bring leisure to the populace; it brings suffering, humiliation, and an absolute destruction of the human community.
– Brands are used to brand people into machines of mass consumption.
RB / JdM”
