“The so-called consumer society and the politics of corporate capitalism have created a second nature of man which ties him libidinally and aggressively to the commodity form. The need of possessing, consuming, handling and constantly renewing the gadgets, devices, instruments, engines, offered too and imposed upon the people, for using these wares even at the danger of one’s own destruction, has become a “biological” need.”
— Herbert Marcuse
Almost the whole political spectrum many have been caught in the trap of
this idea of “need” in this narrow consumerist way. Although we support the social and economical struggle of the oppressed. I’m convinced there should be a philosophical shift from “need” to what is good, what really enriches us.
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