StarAstrologer - Books : Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 339.470973
EAN: 9780393330892
ISBN: 0393330893
Label: W. W. Norton
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 416
Publication Date: March 10, 2008
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Sales Rank: 15246
Studio: W. W. Norton
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"Powerful and disturbing. No one who cares about the future of our public life can afford to ignore this book."—Jackson Lears
A powerful sequel to Benjamin R. Barber's best-selling Jihad vs. McWorld, Consumed offers a vivid portrait of an overproducing global economy that targets children as consumers in a market where there are never enough shoppers and where the primary goal is no longer to manufacture goods but needs. To explain how and why this has come about, Barber brings together extensive empirical research with an original theoretical framework for understanding our contemporary predicament. He asserts that in place of the Protestant ethic once associated with capitalism—encouraging self-restraint, preparing for the future, protecting and self-sacrificing for children and community, and other characteristics of adulthood—we are constantly being seduced into an "infantilist" ethic of consumption.
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If there is a way to write a thesis about our consuming habit, this book brings you high on the ladder of conspiracy theory. Never the less the thesis is plausible and it gives us a good understanding of the nature and the root of capitalism and its impact on the future. One question though remains unanswered, what than to do?.....
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Barber is adept at observing and brilliantly describing the symptoms that face our society. But unlike a gifted medical doctor, he is not so competent at finding the source of the symptoms, let alone providing an effective cure. Yes, our society is a runaway train headed for destruction, but what can we do about it?
Having worked for years in the advertising industry, I can tell you that the manufacturing of envy, desire and wantonness is in full swing. Our culture cannot withstand ... Read More
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Barber is to be commended for understanding how capitalism thrives at the expense of certain traditional values. In the early part of last century, the US Commerce Commission issued a report to the effect that industrialization had become so productive that the real worry was to have enough buyers out there to lap up all the stuff. What was needed, accordingly, was an undermining of traditional values of thrift and sacrifice. If those values continued, capitalism would fail.
Barber's ... Read More
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The title of my review would probably serve as a better title for the book. But alas...
Benjamin Barber's primary thesis in Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole is that marketing that reinforces adolescent behavior in adults and seeks to make children more usable consumers. This marketing is continually reinforced by a privatized capitalist system that undermines civil liberty and citizenship at the expense of consumer behaviors. It is, ... Read More
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If your wanting quality information regarding the effects of markets and globalization then you should pass over this book. It amazes me how this individual was able to get this book published as it presents no new arguments. If you want revelation, insight, and/or documented work, then search for Greg Palast or any other author.
I have a compulsive need to finish what I start and I've forced myself to read books before. However I was not able to finish this book for several reasons. The ... Read More
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