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Quote by Guy Debord
Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love a

Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit. – Guy Debord

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In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation. – Guy Debord

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Modern, Modernism
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Guy Debord
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Consumerism
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The individual serves the industrial system not by supplying it with savings and the resulting capital; he serves it by consuming its products. – John Kenneth Galbraith

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Consumerism

Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss. – Doug Horton

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Consumerism

I may be a pessimist, but the philosophy of anti-thrift just now coming into being seems to me the greatest danger to the peace of the world. – Adriano Tilgher

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Consumerism

It all depends on whether you have things, or they have you. – Robert A. Cook

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