Yes, we know that there were many stupid acts of defective consumerism.
Zhang Xianglong, a philosophy professor at Shandong University, said acts of incendiary consumerism corrupt the true meaning of Qingming.
The West German reconceptualises his brother as a "thing" (in a speech that also booms with echoes of Nazi ideology) and ultimately negates him in what could be described as an act of extreme consumerism, before ending up where we started - in a diner in Californian, dreaming bad dreams of the past in the arms of the transsexual waitress.
It would appear that the Prada strategy is to invigorate the act of shopping by creating museums of consumerism, which like all good museums today come complete with a self-critique.
She then quotes the author of a book called "The Death of Character," who also complains about how "we no longer trust the authority of traditional institutions," and Cory Booker, who tells her that his run into a burning building last month was an act of resistance against "consumerism and narcissism and me-ism" and "shallow celebrity" culture.
It's also undertaken for various reasons, perhaps a mini act of rebellion against consumerism; or a product of self-assessed entitlement; sometimes it's just for thrill-seeking; and for some it's thought of as a desperate act of necessity.
"I was sick and tired of consumerism".
Was this a critique of consumerism?
"We've seen a world of consumerism.
He is one of the earlier literary victims of consumerism and his story to me is one of the most poetic expressions of the complete emptiness following the act of purchase.
