As we move beyond shallow critiques of consumerism, the most important thing to keep in mind is that desire cannot be changed easily, and that moralizing or sermonizing--the common responses of the system--will not work.
While parts of this book are disappointingly shallow, Stiglitz's critique of the market-driven 90's still resonates, especially when the business pages are full of stories about white-collar crime and the stock market seems stuck in a perpetual rut.
The chattering classes, from the right and left — especially the left — should amend their critique, admit that their shallow, hasty analysis was wrong and apologize to the president.
When organisers highlight a small number of winners, we open ourselves up to critiques that we're peddling shallow solutionism, token civic engagement, exploitative labor practices, and half-baked projects that never create impact.
Critiquing the video because it is not sophisticated enough is like critiquing the 2008 Obama campaign for shallow messaging in lieu of detailed policy positions.
This would undoubtedly have pleased Wagner, but it is a critique missing from Mr. Lepage's resolutely shallow "Ring".
+ Lawyer and writer Madeleine Holden, of Critique My Dick Pic fame, probed the complicatedly shallow depths of the male nude.
These shallow notions insult the reader's awareness of the well-established critiques around many of them as theoretically unrigorous and materially impracticable solutions.
So while Gingrich and Lomborg's critique of the right is correct, and devastating, S&N's is both shallow and incorrect.
It's a thoroughly damning critique almost guaranteed to irritate the notoriously thin-skinned president-elect, or as Nguyen calls him, a "shallow, mediocre man". .
