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Step Away From The Credit Card: Is Consumerism Killing Democracy?

"It's what I call push capitalism. It's supply side. They've got to sell all this stuff, and they have to figure out how to get us to want it. So they take adults and they infantilize them. They dumb them down. They get us to want things."

Political scientist Benjamin Barber thinks mindless spending is killing America.
mumbled Groc on Wednesday, December 26, 2007

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