Consumption of Life, of Eternity, of Self-glory and Hate Toward Dissimilar Others Consumerism as a behavioral orientation existed, as it’s well known, long before the so called consumer society. People owned slaves, serfs, servants, women, children, land. They consumed flora, fauna, human bodies, muscle work and skills. They consumed the sky in the form of [...]

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Spectacular Athletic Events as Training in Emotional Totalitarianism In U.S. mass enthusiasm for spectacular athletic events is commercially rooted and advertized. As a result people’s emotions have become standardized and impersonalized – sport fans psychologically reflect one another and group around the star-athletes as their idolized fetishes. Competitive principle of victory-defeat engraves itself in their [...]

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Monopolistic Domination over the Market and Pauperization of the American Population In Germany pauperization of the population preceded the growth of Nazi ideology. Georg Grosz is a witness to how humiliation of the people by poverty makes them susceptible to megalomaniacal ideas of belonging to a super-race. He provides us with the knowledge of how [...]

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