As businessmen caught a glimpse of the potentialities inherent in endlessly expanding the wants of people under consumerism, forced draft or otherwise, many began to see blue skies... What was needed was strategies that would make Americans in large numbers into voracious, wasteful, compulsive consumers-and strategies that would provide products assuring such wastefulness. Even where wastefulness was not involved, additional strategies were needed that would induce the public to consume at ever-higher levels.
You can't tell a millionaire's son from a billionaire's. - Vance Packard
You can't tell a millionaire's son from a billionaire's.
- Vance Packard
Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done - Vance Packard
Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done
As businessmen caught a glimpse of the potentialities inherent in endlessly expanding the wants of people under consumerism, forced draft or otherwis… - Vance Packard
As businessmen caught a glimpse of the potentialities inherent in endlessly expanding the wants of people under consumerism, forced draft or otherwis…
The most common characteristic of all police states is intimidation by surveillance. Citizens know they are being watched and overheard. Their mail i… - Vance Packard
The most common characteristic of all police states is intimidation by surveillance. Citizens know they are being watched and overheard. Their mail i…
The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer. - Vance Packard
The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer.
Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria. - Vance Packard
Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.
Furthermore, unlike Man's other great good friend the horse, the cat is no sweating serf of Man. The only labor she condescends to perform is to catc… - Vance Packard
Furthermore, unlike Man's other great good friend the horse, the cat is no sweating serf of Man. The only labor she condescends to perform is to catc…
If the person you are trying to diagnose politically is some sort of intellectual, the chances are two to one he is a Democrat. - Vance Packard
If the person you are trying to diagnose politically is some sort of intellectual, the chances are two to one he is a Democrat.
New pressures are causing ever more people to find their main satisfaction in their consumptive role rather than in their productive role. And these … - Vance Packard
New pressures are causing ever more people to find their main satisfaction in their consumptive role rather than in their productive role. And these …
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