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Lastest Musing THE DECADE IN ONE PAGE Eugene Linden • STOLEN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION! (DEFINITELY – FLORIDA!) • TECH BUBBLE BURSTS, CREDIT BUBBLE BEGINS • 9/11 • INVADE WRONG COUNTRY, FAIL TO CATCH/KILL PERPETRATORS OF 9/11, SPEND $1-2 TRILLION WE DON’T HAVE, AMERICANS URGED TO FIGHT TERRORISM -- BY SHOPPING! • TORTURE – Y... continue Featured Book Winds of Change Buy from Amazon more info Afterword to the softbound edition. Articles by Category endangered animals rapid climate change global deforestation fragging The Octopus and the Orangutan more info The Future In Plain Sight more info The Parrot's Lament more info Silent Partners more info Affluence and Discontent more info The Alms Race more info Apes, Men, & Language more info

affluenceanddiscontent Affluence and Discontent offers a theory about the nature and origins of the consumer society. The book argues that the consumer society is the latest artifact in an ancient rhythm of western societies that has seen reason gradually marginalize religious influences over behavior. The genius of the consumer society lies in the way it capitalizes on the very religious discontents if produces: as materialism and reason crowd out religion, these disenfranchised forces resurface in fads and countercultural movements that are then domesticated as new sources of consumer interest. contact Eugene Linden

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