>>> sawicky at epinet.org 09/26/00 12:10PM >>>
Fair enough.
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I'm not for trying to stop people spending $150 for a pair of shoes, or $2,000 for a stereo. I think they do it out of a phantasmic attempt to fulfill a longing that the purchase won't fulfill, though, so they'll just need to buy some other overpriced commodity soon after. In my role as self-appointed social critic, I'm just aiming to point this out and suggest that buying stuff isn't really a cure for alienation.
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CB: Can we add that the suggestion of the theory of commodity fetishism is that buying stuff is not only not a cure, but a cause of alienation ? Relationships with things are substituted for relationships with people.