Why Boomers suck, or, commodify your self-loathing

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Mon Aug 6 10:04:58 PDT 2001


David Hearne wrote:
>
> >David
> >
> >I don't remember if I posted this article before but a
> >study done by Smeal College found that materialistic
> >"tweens" shop more and save less:
>
Even a half-wit like Lionel Trilling could see that this sort of behavior was the opposite of "materialistic" or even of hedonism. It's pure spiritual pleasure, and like most spiritual pleasure is a barrier to understanding one's world.

Blaming 'teens is an even more disgusting spiritual pleasure.

Carrol



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