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“Galbraith, tellingly, drew a line between ‘simple modes of enjoyment’ (he included here sport, food and houses as well as cars and sex) and more ‘esoteric’ ones such as music, fine art ‘and to some extent travel’. The first group required ‘little prior preparation of the subject for its highest enjoyment’ and was thus the target of ‘modern want creation’. The latter, by contrast, were more distinctly individual and had to be cultivated.”
― Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First
― Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First
“in the real world, religious life does not exist in a purely spiritual form. It is saturated with things.”
― Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First
― Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First
“Mirrors and soap would teach self-discipline. Polished shoes, clean shirts and a shaved face signalled an inner purity that could be monitored by others as well as by oneself.”
― Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First
― Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First
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