This rant was triggered firstly by watching the documentary video from http//storyofstuff.com/ well worth the watch if you want to understand consumerism better.
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“"The Elixir of Life?"
"Exactly. Think of the people who have tried to find it."
"If I were to find such a thing, I would throw it away."
"I hope you are not being stupid about children," asked Merlyn, looking vaguely about him. "We have high authority for bein born again, like little ones. Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit lately, I notice, of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish. I trust we are free from this?"
"Everybody knos that children are more intelligent than their parents."
"You and I know it, but the people who are going to read this book do not."
"Our readers of that time," contnued the necromancer inn a grim voice, "have exactly three ideas in their magnificient noddles. The first is that the human species is superior to others. The second, that the twentieth century is superior to other centuries. And the third, that human adults of the twentieth century are superior to their young. The whole illusion may be labelled Progress, and anybody who questions it is called puerile, reactionary, or an escapist. The March of Mind, God help them."
He considered these facts for some time, then added: "And a fourth piece of scientific clap-trap which they are to have, rejoices in the name of anthropomorphism. Even their children are supposed to be so superior to the animals that you must never mention the two creatures in the same breath. If you begin considering men as animals, they put it the other way round and say that you are considering animals as men, a sin which they hold as worse than bigamy. Imagine a scientist being merely an animal, they say! Tut-tut, and Till-fol-de-rido!" pg 38-39” - T.H. White The Book of MerlynTag cloud
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