"We've seen a world of consumerism.
Architecture has increasingly moved into this world of consumerism.
Others see hackable vulnerabilities and a dark world of consumerism, inequality and surveillance.
No wonder it has become nearly impossible to imagine a world without consumerism.
Their lifeless embrace is the visible consequence of a world where consumerism comes above basics like safe working conditions.
Why throw away perfectly good and functioning possessions simply because the frenetic world of consumerism pressures you to do so?
The world changes, consumerism marches on, and things once considered luxuries for the well-heeled are now taken for granted by us all — homes with 2½ bathrooms, air travel, cars with power windows.
Perhaps at the very heart of it all is whether there is the critical mass of enough people to whom altruism and social aims are of primary importance, in a world where consumerism, acquisition and ownership have for so long reigned supreme.
Hubert's, which to Liebling and Mitchell had conjured the irrepressible eccentricity of the carnival midway, became for a new generation of alienated souls the One True Place, an underground fastness of the marginal and the grotesque hidden away from the all-devouring world of consumerism and plenty.
Another attractive play from the world of consumerism is Colgate-Palmolive, parent of familiar household brands ranging from toothpaste to household cleaners to pet foods (do not use these things simultaneously).
Instead of concentrating on cars and trucks, particularly trucks, in the U.S., Nasser focused on business fads, such as globalism (buying billions of dollars' worth of businesses around the world) and consumerism (buying up car dealers here, thus putting the company into competition with its own independent dealers).
