Capitalism's Replacement Of Reponsbile Citizenship With Consumerism

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  Zach Zimet

  
  

  What the paranormal fuck is going on with people? Where would one get that impression? Holy balls of our savior.

  
  

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• Tom Magnuson

  
  

  Never a recorded selfless act; what possesses these people?
  Alan Archibald: The capitalist milieu has succeeded in replacing responsible citizenship with consumerism - and the dependable consolations of purchaseable pleasure. Citizens who formerly contemplated The General Welfare, The Common Good and a Social Contract have become Consumer Units focused on expansive acquisition in the service of self. The following post-9/11 video clip of George W. Bush conflating "doing business" with good citizenship, simultaneously urging Americans to "shop," reveals the secular religion's unrelenting focus on the central importance of The Golden Calf. https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4552776/user-clip-bush-shopping-quote Uncle Sam's Ministry of Truth makes no mention of consumptive capitalism's unsustainability -- its demonstrable suicidality.