Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole
 

Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole

by Benjamin R. Barber

A piercing and vital look at how capitalism is consuming U.S. society.

An apt sequel to Benjamin R. Barber's best-selling Jihad vs. McWorld, Consumed offers a wrenching portrait of how adult consumers are infantilized in a global economy that overproduces goods and targets children as consumers in a market where there are never enough shoppers. Driven by a frantic imperative to sell,... (read more)

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  • Rob H

    rob h said:

    Yeah, I concur. I am having a hard time seeing things the same after reading this... and I am only on page 100. I look around and see what he is talking about everywhere... people who are virtually or remotely connected, but are alienated in their actual physical environment. I feel am not above it... that I myself fall into the category of people he is discussing. The effect of marketing "brainwashing" goes deep. So may people I know are totally "consumed" in this way of thinking, it is sad. A sad state of humanity we have reached.

    posted Monday, March 10 2008
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