Noam Chomsky Quotes About Consumerism

• As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.

  Noam Chomsky

  Powerful, Long, Hatred

  Noam Chomsky (2016). “Who Rules the World?”, p.54, Metropolitan Books

• All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.

  Noam Chomsky

  Inspirational, Media, People

• It's been a real success - one of the great business successes in the United States - to break down organization, to separate people too: it's part of consumerism. If you can drive people toward individual consumption, that's the highest goal in life. And furthermore, drive them into debt so they're trapped. You don't have to worry about a democracy function because people are trapped and they're alone.

  Noam Chomsky

  Real, Organization, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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