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Zygmunt Bauman
“[T]he secret of all successful 'socialization' is making individuals wish to do what is needed to enable the system to reproduce itself.”
Zygmunt Bauman, Consuming Life

Noah Rasheta
“This is emptiness. It’s the understanding that as life unfolds, it doesn’t mean anything. It is neither positive nor negative. All things simply are as they are.”
Noah Rasheta, No-Nonsense Buddhism for Beginners: Clear Answers to Burning Questions About Core Buddhist Teachings

Tadeusz Konwicki
“W moim kraju nie ma nędzy. Mało kto żebrze na rogach ulic, a jeśli to robi, to jakoś bez przekonania, bez tej siły wewnętrznej, bez tych praw moralnych właściwych prawidłowemu żebractwu. NIkt nie dzieli zapałek na cztery części i nikt nie liczy ziaren soli. Zresztą dzielić zapałek nie opłacałoby się w dzisiejszych czasach. Ledwie co trzecia daje się zapalić.
Nasza nędza współczesna jest przezroczysta jak szkło i niewidzialna jak powietrze. Nasza nędza to kilometrowe ogonki, to nieustanny tłok łokci, to złośliwy urzędnik, to spóźniony bez powodu pociąg, to odcięta przez fatalne siły woda, czyli brak wody, to zamknięty nieoczekiwanie sklep, to rozwścieczony sąsiad, to kłamliwa gazeta i wielogodzinne przemówienie w telewizji zamiast transmisji sportowej, to przymus należenia do partii, to zepsuta pralka sprzedana w państwowym magazynie, to specjalne sklepy, w których możesz sobie coś kupić za dolary, to monotonia życia bez żadnej nadziei, to rozpadające się miasta historyczne, to pustynniejące województwa i zatrute rzeki. Nasza nędza to łaska totalnego państwa, łaska z której żyjemy.”
Tadeusz Konwicki, A Minor Apocalypse

Zygmunt Bauman
“If the privilege of 'never being bored' is the measure of a successful life, of happiness and even of human decency, and if intense consumer activity is the prime, royal road to victory over boredom, then the lid has been taken off human desires; no amount of gratifying acquisitions and enticing sensations is likely ever to bring satisfaction in the way once promised by 'keeping up to standards'. There are now no standards to keep up to — or rather no standards which, once reached, can authoritatively endorse the right to acceptance and respect, and guarantee their long duration. The finishing line moves together with the runner, the goals stay forever a step or two ahead. Records keep being broken, and there seems to be no end to what a human being may desire.”
Zygmunt Bauman, Consuming Life

Zygmunt Bauman
“Consumer society thrives as long as it manages to render the non-satisfaction of its members (and so, in its own terms, their unhappiness) perpetual. The explicit method of achieving such an effect is to denigrate and devalue consumer products shortly after they have been hyped into the universe of the consumers' desires. But another way to do the same thing, and yet more effectively, stays in the semi-shade and is seldom brought out into the limelight except by perceptive investigative journalists: namely, by satisfying every need/desire/want in such a fashion that they cannot but give birth to yet new needs/desires/wants. What starts as an effort to satisfy a need must end up as a compulsion or an addiction.”
Zygmunt Bauman, Consuming Life

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