What Is the Theory Behind Anti-Consumerism?
Question by Oscar: What is the theory behind anti-consumerism?
I’m a pretty liberal guy and I’ve notice a lot of leftists are opposed to consumerism. Why is consumerism considered a bad thing by some people? I want to understand, I just see it as making it easier to get things you want/need. I understand many advertisers trick you into buying their products, but aside from this do anti-consumerists have an argument?
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Answer by Aleconomixt
It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
—Bertrand Russell
Trying to reduce environmental pollution without reducing consumerism is like combating drug trafficking without reducing the drug addiction.
—Jorge Majfud
“Our enormously productive economy demands that we make consumption our way of life, that we convert the buying and use of goods into rituals, that we seek our spiritual satisfaction and our ego satisfaction in consumption. We need things consumed, burned up, worn out, replaced and discarded at an ever-increasing rate”.
Thomas Aquinas wrote “Greed is a sin against God, just as all mortal sins, in as much as man condemns things eternal for the sake of temporal things.”. Some notable individuals, such as Francis of Assisi, Ammon Hennacy, and Mohandas Gandhi claimed spiritual inspiration led them to a simple lifestyle.
The site in source depicts 22 books on anti-consumerism.
but most interesting is what David Ricardo and Mark Twain said ….buy land, they don’t make it anymore. appears irrelevant, but seems advocating locking money for long.
Answer by Random guy
the theory is “sour grapes” — demonizing something b/c you cannot have it.
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