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Ralph Bakker:<\/p>\n

– Consumerism is used to control the populace by building a society in which political obedience is rewarded with shinny objects.<\/p>\n

– Consumerism tampers with human emotions by making people feel empty so they can fill the void with crap.<\/p>\n

– Consumerism is based on false dreams; this is why avid consumers tend to be extremely delusional.<\/p>\n

– Consumerism is based on false dreams that get the masses to believe that the hell of consuming one’s life away is a utopia.<\/p>\n

– Consumerist culture is very conformist in nature because creativity is the antithesis of consumption.<\/p>\n

– Consumerism strips away an individual’s identity by shifting their gaze away from political consciousness towards stuff.<\/p>\n

– Consumer culture turns people into status-seeking fiends; this is why some people cannot be seen in public without brand name accessories.<\/p>\n

– Consumption is used by the ruling class to turn the children of the people into future corporate wage-slaves, aided by credit.<\/p>\n

– Consumerism has taken over human lives like an infectious, psychological, disease spreading manically from mind to mind.<\/p>\n

– The consumerist-society is an oxymoronic term because consumerism is based on isolation and mental conditioning.<\/p>\n

– Consumer culture is anti-creative because it laughs at anyone who questions the corporate ideology of the whole rotting system.<\/p>\n

– Many people are addicted to buying stuff because the upper class profits immensely from this addiction.<\/p>\n

– Credit is used to accelerate mindless consumption; this is the ultimate method of turning workers into wage-slaves.<\/p>\n

– Consumerism is designed to create an anxious populace; this is why children are increasing hyper and lacking in focus.<\/p>\n

– Consumerist society is based on mindless mimicry; this is why the capitalist system is losing all sense of creativity and originality.<\/p>\n

– Consumerism is dependent on the ideology of instant gratification which turns people into addicts to immediate satisfaction.<\/p>\n

– Consumerism turns children into obese symbols of an obese capitalist culture.<\/p>\n

– Capitalist profit from consumerism by using it to drive a system based on massive debts.<\/p>\n

– Consumer culture turns people into status-seeking fiends; this is why many people will prostitute themselves for brand name items.<\/p>\n

– Consumer culture turns people into status-seeking fiends who chase brands like wild maniacs for the sake of peer approval.<\/p>\n

– Consumer culture turns people into status-seeking fiends who establish deep relationships with brands instead of human beings.<\/p>\n

– Consumerism turns children into apolitical junkies who stare at television ads, ironically enough, in search of meaning.<\/p>\n

– Consumerism is not a byproduct of human nature; it is a disease which turns loving human beings into insane consumptive zombies.<\/p>\n

– Many people are addicted to buying stuff and their addiction is the only reason why the obese capitalist system continues to survive.<\/p>\n

– Mass consumption is mass destruction because it destroys the ecosystem and its ability to sustain itself.<\/p>\n

– The consumer-society will destroy itself because it destroys the intellectual capacity of those who believe in it.<\/p>\n

– The ideology of consumerism is part and parcel of the imperialist agenda; this is why consumer societies lack revolutionary instincts.<\/p>\n

– The consumerist-society is an oxymoronic term because consumerism is designed to crush social solidarity.<\/p>\n

– Hollywood promotes consumerism by creating visual flows that are designed to turn citizens into mimicking consumer-fools.<\/p>\n

– Consumerism deforms human relationships by putting the focus on transactions rather than personal interactions and ideas of each other.<\/p>\n

– Consumerism is designed to create an anxious populace; this is why many people run around chasing gadgets instead of political freedom.<\/p>\n

– Consumerism strips away an individual’s identity by turning them into a needy, infantile, consumer.<\/p>\n

– The act of consumption is political because in buying products and brands citizens are submitting to the materialist formulation of life.<\/p>\n

– The act of consumption is political because when citizens consume products they are subscribing to the ideology of the corporate elite.<\/p>\n

– Consumerism tampers with human emotions by exploiting the natural need to belong and turning it towards consumption habits.<\/p>\n

– Consumerism is based on false dreams that turn human beings into delusional fanatics of trinkets and gadgets.<\/p>\n

– Consumer culture turns people into status-seeking fiends who will do anything, absolutely anything, for luxury brands.<\/p>\n

– Consumer society is self destructive because it creates monstrous human beings with violent, insatiable, appetites.<\/p>\n

– Consumer culture turns people into status-seeking fiends, destroying their soul by becoming entirely superficial.<\/p>\n

– Credit is used to accelerate mindless consumption; this is how the sick capitalist society perpetuates its dying self.<\/p>\n

– Consumerism is based on false dreams that penetrate the psychology of the individual and holds them hostage to materialism.<\/p>\n

– Mass consumption is mass destruction because it destroys people’s abilities to communicate about anything more than stuff.<\/p>\n

– Advertising is used to brainwash people into consumption by making people feel constantly lacking in something or another.<\/p>\n

– Consumerism is used by the ruling class to keep the human dialogue focused on stuff instead of political change.<\/p>\n

– The consumer society brings out avarice out of human beings, making them constantly want more regardless of the wastefulness.<\/p>\n

– Capitalist profit from consumerism by turning human existence into a pathetic sequence of consumptive decisions.<\/p>\n

– Consumerism fosters narcissism by promoting celebrity personalities that are highly egotistical and narcissistic.<\/p>\n

– Consumerism is dependent on the ideology of instant gratification which turns human beings into drugged up ‘happiness’ addicts.<\/p>\n

– The consumer society brings out a general sickness, social apathy, a malaise, a miasma, a perpetual nausea.<\/p>\n

– Consumer society is self destructive because it sells a vision of a utopia while laying human creativity to waste.<\/p>\n

– Consumerism leads to widening the gap between rich and poor because it puts all power in the hands of those making the crap.<\/p>\n

– Consumerism turns children into mental slaves to the ideology of corporate commercialism.<\/p>\n

– Consumerism has become its own religion; this is why some people spend $700 on True Religion jeans.<\/p>\n

– Responsible citizens must reject consumerism by demanding a society that serves its citizens, not merely conditions them.<\/p>\n

– Consumerism captures people’s psychology by turning the human dialogue into an intricate advertisement for goods and services.<\/p>\n

– Consumerism has taken over human lives; it has destroyed the psychology of millions of citizens, turning them into shopaholic slaves.<\/p>\n

– Consumption is a drug because many people are willing to prostitute their minds in order to attain disgusting luxuries.<\/p>\n

– Consumerist culture is very conformist in nature; this is why people who consume avidly are indifferent to political repression.<\/p>\n

– The act of consumption is political because when a citizen buys corporate brands they are legitimizing the rule of the corporate elite and bankers.<\/p>\n

– Consumerism strips away an individual’s identity by filling their heart with materialistic, vain, ambitions.<\/p>\n

– Consumption is a very psychological act because buying the products of corporations makes the populace complicit in its own oppression.<\/p>\n

– Responsible citizens must reject consumerism by spreading the seeds of dissent against a decadent social system.<\/p>\n

– Consumerism is not a byproduct of human nature; it is anti-human, misanthropic, it reduces people to consuming cattle.<\/p>\n

– Consumerism fosters narcissism by killing people’s abilities to relate to each other outside of the ‘who’s better than who’ paradigm.<\/p>\n

– Consumerist society is based on mindless mimicry, making it a society which is very bland and fascistically uniform.<\/p>\n

– Credit is used to accelerate mindless consumption; this is why many people refinance their homes so they can buy utter crap.<\/p>\n

– Consumerism is capitalism’s way of infiltrating human life and turning it into a machine that consumes itself.<\/p>\n

– The Consumerist-Society is spiritually dead because it leaves no room for creativity, everything must serve The Economy Boogieman.<\/p>\n

– Consumerism tampers with human emotions by using nostalgia to ramp up Christmas consumption.<\/p>\n

– Consumerism is used by the ruling class to control the conversation between friends, family members and strangers.<\/p>\n

– Consumerism leads to widening the gap between rich and poor because the poor are brainwashed into desiring the products of the rich.<\/p>\n

– Consumerism has become its own religion; this is why the masses go to pray at the mall during Holidays.<\/p>\n

– Consumerism is used by the ruling class to ensure that the dominant narrative is that of consuming, of stuff, of material desires.<\/p>\n

– Consumerism is designed to create an anxious populace because an anxious populace is a politically impotent one.<\/p>\n

– Consumerism is dependent on the ideology of instant gratification; this is why ad campaigns make grotesque promises of immediate happiness.<\/p>\n

– Consumerism obliterates human spirituality because its goal is to transform human beings into consuming machines.<\/p>\n

– Consumerist culture is very conformist in nature because capitalists long to reduce human beings to easily categorized consumers.<\/p>\n

– Consumerism is designed to imprison people in debt; this debt then works to coerce them into a lifetime of wage-slavery.<\/p>\n

– Consumption is a very psychological act; this is why the majority of consumers are psychologically and thus politically passive.<\/p>\n

– Consumerism leads to widening the gap between rich and poor because it destroys the collective identity of the populace.<\/p>\n

– Citizens can resist the consumerist impulse by refusing to participate in holidays which are mere commercial charades.<\/p>\n

– Consumerism captures people’s psychology by turning the flow of information towards consumer products and services.<\/p>\n

– Brands are used to brand people into consumer-slaves to the corporate agenda.<\/p>\n

– Consumerist society is based on mindless mimicry; this is why teenagers who choose to deviate are ostracized and bullied.<\/p>\n

– Consumer society is self destructive because it is highly dependent on the violent intensity of hedonistic gratification.<\/p>\n

– The act of consumption is political because at some point consumers are willing to forfeit all political rights for their dose of stuff.<\/p>\n

– Consumerism is capitalism’s way of infiltrating human life and rendering it creatively, spiritually and intellectually obsolete.<\/p>\n

– Responsible citizens must reject consumerism or risk having their lives consumed by its ravenous forces.<\/p>\n

– Consumerism is self-destructive because it eats away at a human being’s mind and visions.<\/p>\n

– Consumer culture is anti-creative because it values stuff over ideas.<\/p>\n

– Consumer culture is anti-creative because it does not allow anyone the chance to exist outside of its money-based prisons.<\/p>\n

– Consumerism fosters narcissism by planting the seed of self-differentiation based on consumption habits.<\/p>\n

– Consumerism is used to control the populace by offering gadgets and trinkets in return for political submission.<\/p>\n

– The Consumerist-Society is spiritually dead because it warps human interactions into financial transactions.<\/p>\n

– Consumerism tampers with human emotions by making people who don’t have certain products feel like failures.<\/p>\n

– Consumerism does not bring leisure to the human race; it brings wantonness, neediness and a disgusting sense of apathy.<\/p>\n

– Consumerism is capitalism’s way of infiltrating human life and turning it into a bestial system of consuming the world around it.<\/p>\n

– Brands are used to brand people into infantile consumers who feel stupidly empowered by expensive logos and designer objects.<\/p>\n

– The consumer society brings out fear out of human beings, the fear of being left behind on some imagined race towards prosperity.<\/p>\n

– Consumerism has taken over human lives and only revolution can surgically remove it from the mass psychology of the people.<\/p>\n

– Consumerism deforms human relationships by getting people to focus on product releases instead of each other’s thoughts and ideas.<\/p>\n

– Many people are addicted to buying stuff because the mass media is a machine designed to intensify consumption.<\/p>\n

– Consumption is a very psychological act because it is an expression of people’s mental need to belong to a broken society.<\/p>\n

– Consumerism obliterates human spirituality because it destroys a person’s ability to see the world outside of the prism of consumption.<\/p>\n

– Many people are addicted to buying stuff because we live in a society that encourages this addiction.<\/p>\n

– Consumerism is designed to imprison people in debt; at some point someone has to pay for all the things that are being overconsumed.<\/p>\n

– Consumerism is based on false dreams; this is why the capitalist state sponsors lotteries that encourage people to dream away.<\/p>\n

– Capitalist profit from consumerism by using it to take back what little allowance the populace is given.<\/p>\n

– Consumerism is not a byproduct of human nature; it strips the human mind of all that makes it brilliant and bold.<\/p>\n

– Responsible citizens must reject consumerism and adopt a political ideology that revolutionizes citizens instead of numbing them down.<\/p>\n

– The consumer society brings out self-hatred out of human beings, so that they are constantly buying a new self-image.<\/p>\n

– Consumerism is used to control the populace by promising them ‘happiness’ if they submit to a lifetime of spineless wage-slavery.<\/p>\n

– Consumer culture is anti-creative because it values productivity over creation.<\/p>\n

– Consumerism has become its own religion; this is why Apple fanatics called Steve Jobs their iGod.<\/p>\n

– Consumer culture is anti-creative because it is about selling, buying, consuming; never about knowing and understanding.<\/p>\n

– Consumption is used by the ruling class to turn rebellious, bold, children into slaves to material objects and desires.<\/p>\n

– Consumption is used by the ruling elite to keep the children of the exploited people amused and distracted by nonsense.<\/p>\n

– Consumption is used by the ruling class to ensure that children’s minds remain within the sick worldview of capitalism.<\/p>\n

– Citizens can resist the consumerist impulse by defying the advertising industry and deconstructing the shit out of it.<\/p>\n

– The Consumerist-Society is spiritually dead because it turns human energy into a mere lubricant for more mindless consumption.<\/p>\n

– Consumerist society is based on mindless mimicry; this is why many people fail to create anything authentic in their entire lives.<\/p>\n

– Hollywood promotes consumerism by creating the impression that the US is a paradise of consumption,even as 10 million in the US are homeless.<\/p>\n

– Hollywood promotes consumerism by selling a vision of life in which everything is available for consumption, all the time.<\/p>\n

– Consumerism turns children into obedient automatons that follow orders because following orders is rewarded with stuff.<\/p>\n

– The citizen becomes the wage-slave when he sacrifices his intellectual freedom for the sake of brand name rubbish.<\/p>\n

– Consumerism obliterates human spirituality because it destroys a person’s ability to see the world outside of the prism of consumption.<\/p>\n

– Consumerism has become its own religion; this is why the masses go to pray at the mall during Holidays.<\/p>\n

– Consumerist culture is very conformist in nature; this is why advertisements are full of social stereotypes.<\/p>\n

– Citizens can destroy their inner consumer by destroying their attachments to the poisons of consumerist-society.<\/p>\n

– Consumerism does not bring leisure to the populace; it brings suffering, humiliation, and an absolute destruction of the human community.<\/p>\n

– Brands are used to brand people into machines of mass consumption.<\/p>\n

RB \/ JdM\u201d<\/p>\n

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