“You know, those unboxing videos you see everywhere on YouTube. They are the epitome of consumerist fetishism.”
― David Cronenberg, Consumed

“A successful actor is praised for never giving up his dreams to become someone else for a living but to dream to be an unmasked artist is a mortal sin in a consumerist society. Artists don't consume; they create things that can’t be consumed with riches. You consume art by seeing, by listening, by feeling, never by buying.”
― Bruce Crown, How Dim the Promised Land

“Living as a slave to unchecked personal desire and subjugated to external circumstances is wearisome. It is a common error to devote a person’s life to earning money. While money relives us from the stress of suffering from deprivation, moneymaking will not make us happy. A person must have passion in life in order to achieve any degree of personal bliss.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls