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??? |
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| Episode |
554 |
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| Writer |
Gene Brockhoff |
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| Director |
Gene Brockhoff |
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| Contributors |
Juliet Schor, Duane Elgin, Cecile Andrews, Eli Jaxon-Bear, James Twitchell, Rod Gorney, Chris Jordan, Carol Holst, John de Graaf, Peter Whybrow, Julian Darley, David Broom |
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| Narrator |
Alex Peterson |
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| ISBN |
1-932869-40-9 |
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This traces the history of conspicuous consumption, and how 20th century advertisers refined their techniques at make US citizens buy products they don't need. Several voices speak up about different angles of the victimisation of the US public intended to turn them into consumers whether they like it or not. It notes that Peak Oil will mean less and less rather than more. It concludes that US consumerism is in crisis, and that it is time for self-directing people to demand more of themselves than passive consumerism, to overcome programming by advertisers and governments, and manage their own lives and help others to wake up to the real world.
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