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  • A Brief History of Consumer Culture

    06/08/2025 8:09:32 AM PDT · by Languager · 13 replies
    MIT Press ^ | Jan 11, 2021 | Kerryn Higgs
    Over the course of the 20th century, capitalism preserved its momentum by molding the ordinary person into a consumer with an unquenchable thirst for more stuff...
  • Our Disposable Society

    11/20/2016 9:36:14 AM PST · by Sean_Anthony
    Canada Free Press ^ | 11/20/16 | Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh
    This disposable society mirrors the trashing of our culture in general, of our borders, our language, and our national identity In our throwaway society, where nothing is sacred anymore and is discarded with the speed of an unwanted darkening banana peel or a lit cigarette butt out the window of a moving car, the miser in me keeps coming out periodically. Animals, love, life, family, relationships, marriages, appliances, trash, things recyclable, valuables, and trash are thrown out or disposed of mostly on purpose with no remorse and with a faster speed than you can say “I do.”