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“Overconsumption is the mother of all environmental problems. For the first time in the history of capitalism, consumption itself has become controversial.” quote by Kalle Lasn — Download Open image

“Overconsumption is the mother of all environmental problems. For the first time in the history of capitalism, consumption itself has become controversial.”

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An increasing number of people are growing uncomfortable with the gulf between the world's rich and the poor. Ostentatiously splashing your money around simply…

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It's a measure of the depth of our consumer trance that the death of the planet is not sufficient to break it.

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The commercial media are to the mental environment what factories are to the physical environment

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“Our mental environment is a common-property resource like the air or the water. We need to protect ourselves from unwanted incursions into it, much…

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All of us somehow felt that the next battleground was going to be culture. We all felt somehow that our culture had been stolen from us-by commercial forces, by advertising agencies, by TV broadcasters. It felt like we were no longer singing our songs and telling stories, and generating our culture from the bottom up, but now we were somehow…

The global economy is a doomsday machine that must be stopped and reprogrammed.

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“Corporations are not legal “persons” with constitutional rights and freedoms of their own, but legal fictions that we created and must therefore control.”

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Amming a coin into a monopoly newspaper box or liberating a billboard in the middle of the night can be a rather honest and…

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In the Soviet Union you weren't allowed to speak out against the government. In the US you cannot speak out against sponsors.

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The most powerful narcotic in the world is the promise of belonging.

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“Do an overwhelming number of respected scientists believe that human actions are changing the Earth's climate? Yes. OK, that being the case, let's undermine that by finding and funding those few contrarians who believe otherwise. Promote their message widely and it will accumulate in the mental environment, just as toxic mercury accumulates in a biological ecosystem. Once enough of the…

There is a profound injustice at the heart of the American economy. You look at the media and realize that these corporate-run commercial entities…

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Capitalism, communism ... it's all garbage.

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Historically, usury was defined as any interest whatever on an unproductive loan.Our whole banking system I have ever abhorred, I continue to abhor, and…

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“Scholars have long debated whether capital markets lead to appropriate levels of saving and investment for future generations.”

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“Occult Theft,--Theft which hides itself even from itself, and is legal, respectable, and cowardly,--corrupts the body and soul of man, to the last fibre of them. And the guilty Thieves of Europe, the real sources of all deadly war in it, are the Capitalists”

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