a term coined by Bruce Levine to describe the mindset of a group of people who "are singularly attached to cheap stuff."
The term describes a culture that "creates increasing material expectations" that often can not be satiated, "devalues human connectedness," "socializes people to be self-absorbed and selfish," "obliterates self-reliance," "alienates people from normal human emotional reactions" and "sells false hope that creates more pain."
The term describes a culture that "creates increasing material expectations" that often can not be satiated, "devalues human connectedness," "socializes people to be self-absorbed and selfish," "obliterates self-reliance," "alienates people from normal human emotional reactions" and "sells false hope that creates more pain."
Fundamentalist Consumerism is demonstrated en-mass on every Black Friday. On Long Island, NY in 2008, Wal-Mart employee Jdimytai Damour was trampled to death by customers stampeding into the store when the doors were opened. Police attempting to clear the scene were met with hostile reactions from customers, some insisting that they "had been waiting in line since yesterday morning" to get into the store. Fundamentalist Consumerism devalues all life in pursuit of 'stuff.'
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Get the Fundamentalist Consumerism mug.1. The practice of conspicuously buying flashy, expensive items and expecting them to fill the voids in one's life.
2. A pejorative used to malign people who enjoy material luxuries, implying that it's impossible for a person do so without having an unhealthy fixation on them. Usually used as a sour grapes excuse to hate people who can afford more luxuries than one's self.
2. A pejorative used to malign people who enjoy material luxuries, implying that it's impossible for a person do so without having an unhealthy fixation on them. Usually used as a sour grapes excuse to hate people who can afford more luxuries than one's self.
1. "Tiffany keeps spending all of her money on expensive designer clothing. When will she realize that it's personality, not consumerism, that wins friends?"
2. "Ugh, did you see Ted's new BMW with heated leather seats, a GPS navigation system, and a 6-disk CD changer? Anyone who would buy luxuries is obviously a disgusingly shallow and materialistic consumerist."
2. "Ugh, did you see Ted's new BMW with heated leather seats, a GPS navigation system, and a 6-disk CD changer? Anyone who would buy luxuries is obviously a disgusingly shallow and materialistic consumerist."
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A seriously over-rated form of modern day cult of commerce, whereby people buy goods. This has led to a rise in needless temptation as well as popular culture, which in turn results in mindless youths sinking into the morass of peer pressure and attention-seeking behaviour, all for the name of cold, hard cash.
Otherwise, a desirable practice.
Otherwise, a desirable practice.
by gad01 May 24, 2008
Get the consumerism mug.A caste in the New World Order in which Celebutantes (people famous for being famous) decide what is worthy of coolness, a commodity that is then traded for the cool product or service through the coin-of-the-realm (be it dollars, pounds sterling, euros, yen, etc.). The Consumerista is a vital but lower ranking member of society, as they are not famous and therefore do not matter except as nodes on the global fiscal economy. The Consumerista buys what the Celebutante thinks is worthy of buying, though the actual act of buying is important in a quasi-religious sense to the consumerista but not to the celebutante, who are too busy living as royalty has always lived: pampered and overindulged. Occasionally, to prevent a revolutionary act, a common "coming together" of the consumerista and their idols is staged to benefit starving children in nations that are "slave states" in all but name, receiving microfinancing loans to dig holes for water and once in a great while given solar powered computers "for educational purposes" by The Gate, which are usually sold for rice to eat.
"Courtney is such a good little consumerista. She read that the Kardashians use Heinz Ketchup just like the poor, and she's switched brands, blogged about the experience, and bought some stock in Heinz. She even donated a case to the South Africans--though they sent it back with a note saying they preferred Hunts."
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Get the Consumerista mug.Microsoft helped to consumerize home computers, with the release of Microsoft Windows; a simple, user friendly operating system.
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Get the consumerize mug.Person A: Yo that guy over there just bought like 40 sticks of butter.
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Get the Butter Consumer mug.A half-assed revolutionary who manifests his/herself through protest and demanding a reduction in consumer prices. Crowds tend to consist of ultra PC psuedo-totalitarian sexually promiscuous fanatics who pussy out at the thought of cutting back on their consumer wants.
The proposed solutions (instead of playing by the rules of supply and demand forces, organized boycott, substitute good awareness) are government bailouts - in other words, subsidies for all well-to-do corporations so that they can willingly slash their prices for their upscale brand-name products.
This trend is prototypical of the post-2009 recession Obamamania and the ongoing contagiousness of the cliche term, "CHANGE".
The proposed solutions (instead of playing by the rules of supply and demand forces, organized boycott, substitute good awareness) are government bailouts - in other words, subsidies for all well-to-do corporations so that they can willingly slash their prices for their upscale brand-name products.
This trend is prototypical of the post-2009 recession Obamamania and the ongoing contagiousness of the cliche term, "CHANGE".
Those consumer-communist douchebags are out protesting in-front of the White House. Some of them are lesbian sumo wrestlers demanding "cheaper prices on Haagen-Dazs ice-cream or else!".
by WeIsAllVictims November 9, 2009
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