Realist or not, there is one fact that the fundis can use to score a game-winning home run: the sheer scale of advertising today that promotes conventional notions of consumption.
Is there anything particular about South Florida notions of consumption, pleasure, and desire that fuel your work?
Crash characteristics: day and time of crash, type of collision, number of passengers on the motorcycle at the time of crash, position of the patient (rider or passenger), rider's experience, helmet use and the notion of alcohol consumption within 6 h prior to the crash.
He distrusts the notion of ethical consumption.
He knows well the economist-sociologist (and University of Chicago professor) Veblen's "Theory of the Leisure Class," which proffered the notion of "conspicuous consumption," a link between status and the products we buy or associate with.
Hence the notion of sustainable consumption.
In addition, the notion of wine consumption for health-related purposes was uncovered and a linkage found with traditional Chinese medicine.
In many instances, those artifacts are so costly to produce that the expenditure on them is excessive, even wasteful, fitting Veblen's (1899) notion of "conspicuous consumption".
The economist Thorstein Veblen popularized the notion of conspicuous consumption, which explains why people covet luxury items and the latest fads, despite having to stretch their budgets for more fundamental items like food, shelter and water.
This position was influenced by Veblen's notion of "conspicuous consumption" and display of commodities analyzed in his Theory of the Leisure Class that Baudrillard argued has become extended to everyone in the consumer society.
