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Defination of a 'consumer society'
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How best would you summerise what a 'consumer society' is?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.The consistent application of a capitalist lexicon to all aspects of life. A society which talks about all things, even things which needn't be thought of in that way, as material, subject to market forces, brought and sold etc.
Example: "buying time" - time obviously can't be brought but we think of it of a commodity with a value attached to it.
That's what I'd go with.
Example: "buying time" - time obviously can't be brought but we think of it of a commodity with a value attached to it.
That's what I'd go with.
To me, a consumer society is one that uses non essential items that they do not really need. While a very basic mobile phone is all we need, they have an immense variety of other extras that we are duped into believing that we need by industry. The frequent renewal of 'up to date' models with more non essential facilities is a successful ploy to dump our old phone to buy a new one.
A fridge is often replaced with a newer model well before it stops working. This is very much a industry generated desire through advertising and is employed with many items.
A fridge is often replaced with a newer model well before it stops working. This is very much a industry generated desire through advertising and is employed with many items.
In the words of kead singer Poly Styrene of the incredible seventies band X-Ray Specs in their song Art-I-Ficial.
I know I'm artificial
But don't put the blame on me
I was reared with appliances
In a consumer society
When I put on my make-up
The pretty little mask not me
That's the way a girl should be
In a consumer society
My existence is elusive
The kind that is supported
By mechanical resources
My existence is elusive
The kind that is supported
By mechanical resources
I wanna be instamatic
I wanna be a frozen pea
I wannna be dehydrated
In a consumer society
In a consumer society
In a consumer society
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaEZQd0BPn0
I know I'm artificial
But don't put the blame on me
I was reared with appliances
In a consumer society
When I put on my make-up
The pretty little mask not me
That's the way a girl should be
In a consumer society
My existence is elusive
The kind that is supported
By mechanical resources
My existence is elusive
The kind that is supported
By mechanical resources
I wanna be instamatic
I wanna be a frozen pea
I wannna be dehydrated
In a consumer society
In a consumer society
In a consumer society
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaEZQd0BPn0
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