The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.
quote by Christopher Lasch
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Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.
In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption.
quote by Raoul Vaneigem
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Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it.
quote by Ellen Willis
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Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.
quote by Christopher Lasch
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In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.
quote by Don DeLillo
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The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful to society, had that society been well organized.
quote by Mary Wollstonecraft
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The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized.
quote by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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New Boobs
Something is lacking, Im not attracting
My boobs are not as big as I want them to be
I want 36d
Im not receiving enuff affection
Gonna get me a silicon injection
And fulfill my dreams, bust through my seams
My social life is pathetic, I cant find a man
When I need is cosmetic surgery
Be the best I can be
Proteins, and milkshakes, mass vitamin consumption
Who needs to diet when liposuction
Is painless and quick, local anesthetic
Now my body is a model, a flawless perfection
I most certainly will cause an erection
Wherever I go, but I still dont know
The reason why I cant find a mate
Guys I meet ejaculate
Then leave through the door,
I cant take anymore
song performed by by NOFX
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When I see the cultural diversity that exists today, I feel that we must defend it, and we need Europe, because otherwise we are going to live in a society with a single model, the Anglo-American model.
quote by Jean-Pierre Raffarin
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Model Citizen
Be an Arab
Be a Jew
Be a boxing
Kangaroo
Beat yourself
All black and blue
I don't care
Be a bleeder
Be a Cancer
A hemophiliac
Romancer
Be a crippled disco
Dancer
Oooh... What a pair
He's a model citizen
I think I've got them fooled them again
He's an ultra-sweety guy
And a master of disguise
He's a model citizen
Just keep believing that my friends
I'm a model citizen
I'm a model citizen
I'm a model citizen
I'm a model citizen
I'm an all American!!!
I'm a hostage
In a city of creeps
They've got mercenary guards
That watch me sleep
They'd like to kill me slow
Bury me deep
In the heart of Texas
I'm a martyr
I'm a sadist
I might be the Saviour here to save us
I'm a friend of Sammy Davis, casually
He's a model citizen
I think I've got them fooled again
He's an ultra-sweety guy
I won't let down my disguise
He's a model citizen
Just keep believing that my friends
I'm a model citizen
I'm a model citizen
I'm a model citizen
I'm a model citizen
I'm an all American
I'm a model citizen
I'm a model citizen
I'm a model citizen
I'm an all American
song performed by by Alice Cooper
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Even the bands I dig don't have a history of attaining mass consumption.
quote by Evan Dando
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What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it.
quote by Jean-Francois Lyotard
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We must make a very precise distinction between the official and consequently dictatorial prerogatives of society organized as a state, and of the natural influence and action of the members of a non-
official, non-artificial society.
quote by Mikhail Bakunin
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Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic, spiritual, and biological facts. It maintains that respect for a healthy development of human society and of world civilization requires that mankind be organized internationally.
quote by Christian Lous Lange
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Man is an animal, but a social animal. Society for its manifold blessings asks in exchange sacrifice and compromise. Concession is the world's walking gait. Fevers and hallucinations sweep over us, it is true; but be they permitted to infect the public body, slaughter shall result. Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
quote by John Updike
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A society of consumption produces a disposable man!
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With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.
quote by Arthur Erickson
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Organized religion provides a model of the way all organizations, from the state down to the village garden club, end a price in terms of a member's freedom of thought and action.
quote by Robert Shea
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Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.
quote by Lyndon B. Johnson
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Education Here
i agree that this educational system
is another kind of factory
persons of the same age at packed
in batches
designed for a common end
some have to be discarded as
nothing but useless commodities
others are displayed priced high
and for sale,
there is no more that person
so considered for his innate qualities
there is no more collaboration in solving a problem
lest it be considered by the university rules
as cheating
all minds think the same
on standardized testings
those that think otherwise shall be junked
by the system
and so there is no other Einstein
nobody original
all mass produced
certified for mass consumption.
poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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