Consumerism · Skopia

Quotes

16

Film · Drama (film) · Drama

Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need.

Fight Club · 1999

★ 5.5

Sociology · Economic literature

In order to gain and to hold the esteem of men it is not sufficient merely to possess wealth or power. The wealth or power must be put in evidence, for esteem is awarded only on evidence.

Thorstein Veblen

The Theory of the Leisure Class · 1899

★ 5.3

Film · Drama (film) · Drama

The things you own end up owning you.

Fight Club · 1999

★ 4.0

Sociology · Economic literature

Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.

Thorstein Veblen

1899

★ 3.7

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Songs

14

(I Can't Get No) SatisfactionThe Rolling Stones

(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction

The Rolling Stones

1965★ 9.8

Feel Good Inc.Gorillaz

Feel Good Inc.

Gorillaz and De La Soul

2005★ 7.6

Royals

2013★ 7.5

Fake Plastic Trees

1995★ 7.5

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

1999★ 7.3

All Falls Down

2004★ 7.3

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Books

5

The Culture of Narcissism

Christopher Lasch

1979★ 6.9

The Theory of the Leisure Class

Thorstein Veblen

1899★ 6.7

The Society of the Spectacle

1967★ 6.5

Critique of Everyday Life

1947★ 5.7

American Psycho

Bret Easton Ellis

1991★ 5.4