Monkey-brained Musings
Monday, February 06, 2006
Damnable Quote of the Day
Americans used to be defined by how we went to church, or by our schools. But now it's really about consumption communities. The question becomes: "Can you assemble, by buying things, a coherent presentation of the self as part of a community?"
James Twitchell, author of Lead Us Into Temptation: the Triumph of American Materialism, as quoted in Salon.
Americans used to be defined by how we went to church, or by our schools. But now it's really about consumption communities. The question becomes: "Can you assemble, by buying things, a coherent presentation of the self as part of a community?"
James Twitchell, author of Lead Us Into Temptation: the Triumph of American Materialism, as quoted in Salon.
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