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Los Angyork City

Steven Nereo | Posted 12.10.2009 | Los Angeles

Read More: New York, Los Angeles, Consumer Culture, Chain Stores, Whole Foods, Corporations, Starbucks, Gap, Los Angeles News
Steven Nereo

As for New York becoming LA, or LA becoming Berlin or Berlin becoming Dubai ... the truth is it's all becoming the same. Sameness is our present and more-of-the-sameness is our future.

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Consumed With Guilt

Matthew Modine | Posted 10.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Consumer Culture, Sustainability, Consumerism, Climate Change, Moon Walk, No Impact Week, Green News
Matthew Modine

Can we transform from a society of consumers to a culture of sustainability? I think we can because history has shown that the human spirit is capable of so many things. Like going to the moon. Yes, we can.

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Mad Men and the High Cost of Advertising

James Block | Posted 10.21.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Consumer Culture, Mad Men, Television, Don Draper, Suburbia, Corporate Culture, Entertainment News
James Block

That Mad Men chronicles the rise of contemporary advertising should be our first warning. The fantasy machine that propels the American consumer culture achieves this leverage simply with make believe.

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America's Health Care Addiction

Craig Bowron | Posted 11.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Consumer Culture, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, American Health Care, Health, Patient Satisfaction, Vioxx, Health Care Reform, Evidence Based Decision Making, Autologous Bone Marrow Transplants, Breast Cancer Treatment, Health Care, Human Life Expectancy, Per Capita Health Care Spending, Evidence-Based Medicine, Politics News
Craig Bowron

How does a country with perhaps the most innovative health care system in the world produce average health care outcomes? It's simple: much of the innovation hasn't delivered.

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Gratitude, or Platitudes?

Michael Sigman | Posted 12.27.2008 | Style

Read More: Consumer Culture, Oprah, Thanksgiving, New Age, George Bush, Gurus, Gratitude, Spirituality, Happiness, Style News
Michael Sigman

I often recall my conversation with a Jewish woman who worshipped an Indian guru. She was on the path to universal forgiveness and gratitude, she told me, there was one obstacle left: she was still working on forgiving Hitler.

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Moby Died For Your Sins: How Selling Out is Pretty Fabulous

Richard Laermer | Posted 04.29.2008 | Business

Read More: Consumer Culture, Selling Out, Business News
Richard Laermer

No one bothers to bat an eyelash when people "sell out," because the mere idea in '08 of selling out is marrying the American Dream to American Laziness. Why do more for less when you can get more for less!

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