Consumerism – Occupied Tucson Citizen

Luddites 3.0

February 24, 2017February 23, 2017 by Frank Rupp

Detail of engraving showing the original Luddites

I. INTENTIONS Technological Progress: have you ever heard of it? Yes, I know, lots of folks have. Marketers have made sure of this. We are bombarded with reports of it every day, by thousands of advertisements. We are told that this year’s new car is “better than” last year’s new car, and many reasons are …

Consumerism in the USA: A Nation of Junkies?

April 23, 2015April 23, 2015 by Greg Evans

In the wake of the world economic crisis of 2008 much has been made, both by economists and the American government, of the need for the rest of the world to take up the “burden” of consuming that the United States had been carrying until then. As Barack Obama stated shortly before the 2009 Group …