COMMERCIALISM & CONSUMERISM

The amount of visual and auditory stimulation the average person receives is rapidly increasing. The effects of this on the developing brain remain unknown.

"Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket." - George Orwell

"Only once we have lost everything are we free to do anything." - Tyler Durden

"Advertising has us working jobs we hate so that we can buy shit we don't need." - Tyler Durden

"Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed." - Mohandas K. Gandhi

"Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites." - William Ruckelshaus

"God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains.  If our nation took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts." - Mahatma Gandhi

"Be glad that you're greedy; the national economy would collapse if you weren't." - Mignon McLaughlin

"You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy." - Eric Hoffer

"In general, my children refused to eat anything that hadn't danced on TV." - Erma Bombeck

"How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right." - Sauk (Black Hawk)