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CONSUMPTION is the major aim of our society, people make life projects based on consumption, they plan what they'll have, not what they'll do. People's dreams and judgements are based on material possessions and images.
Everywhere there are appeals to consumption, just as everywhere there are people consuming exaggeratedly, they buy because they see the advertisements, they buy because they're upset and want to free their minds, they buy a product because everyone has it, they buy for any reason, indeed. You can even find a paralytic guy buying a bicycle or a blind guy buying a picture dictionary...
Well, the worst is what happened in eBay, where someone offered 50€ to buy nothing!!
Christmas and Valentine's Day are an excellent example of consumerism in our society, they completely lost their original meaning to acquire a totally consumerist meaning. These days are the international days for shopping!
What's the point of a Valentine's Day?? Isn't it supposed for couples to love each other, be with each other and show that love to each other everyday of their relationship??
Media pressure people everytime, for any reason, to buy, to consume, and people subdue to this pressure. Both, people and advertisers should change and become more responsible, or otherwise our society is lost in the meaningless of the consumerism.
Everywhere there are appeals to consumption, just as everywhere there are people consuming exaggeratedly, they buy because they see the advertisements, they buy because they're upset and want to free their minds, they buy a product because everyone has it, they buy for any reason, indeed. You can even find a paralytic guy buying a bicycle or a blind guy buying a picture dictionary...
Well, the worst is what happened in eBay, where someone offered 50€ to buy nothing!!
Christmas and Valentine's Day are an excellent example of consumerism in our society, they completely lost their original meaning to acquire a totally consumerist meaning. These days are the international days for shopping!
What's the point of a Valentine's Day?? Isn't it supposed for couples to love each other, be with each other and show that love to each other everyday of their relationship??
Media pressure people everytime, for any reason, to buy, to consume, and people subdue to this pressure. Both, people and advertisers should change and become more responsible, or otherwise our society is lost in the meaningless of the consumerism.
posted by manuhell @ 3/17/2005 09:47:00 PM
4 Comments:
At 10:23 PM,
pauloabx said…
After all, consuming is not that bad... Why care about the real world and love if a bunch of flowers will do the work? Why should I love my family if all they want is a christmas present? In today´s society, materialism is taking over all other values, so what?
At 11:45 PM,
manuhell said…
SO DON'T FORGET MY X-MAS AND BIRTHDAY PRESENT!!! tssss
At 12:02 AM,
pauloabx said…
Some more consumerist days:
Easter
International Women´s Day
In fact every international holiday is used and abused for consumerism... but then again, whose fault is it? Who turned X´MAS into the most consumerist day on earth? Was it advertisers? Was it you and me and everyone who gives everyone else a x´mas present?
At 2:22 PM,
Anonymous said…
It's a fact that consumerism is everybody's fault. It's almost shameful how people nowadays give importance to materialism. We all have to rethink our priorities. People don't care about values, ideals or great causes anymore. I think this has to change some day. Maybe now with the government new measures, people start to think over before they buy and buy and buy, most of the times unnecessarily.
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