Anti-consumption
alienated consumption becomes for the masses a duty supplementary to alienated production
Society of the Spectacle
When economic necessity is replaced by the necessity for boundless economic development, the satisfaction of primary human needs is replaced by an uninterrupted fabrication of pseudo-needs which are reduced to the single pseudo-need of maintaining the reign of the autonomous economy.
Society of the Spectacle
Every single product represents the hope for a dazzling shortcut to the promised land of total consumption and is ceremoniously presented as the decisive entity.
Society of the Spectacle
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