The+Pursuit+of+Stuff

{Materialism}  Consumption Article  We will live for the rest of our days among our empire of things with a certainty that we will never encounter a shortage of novelties to buy, because we are first and for most brilliantly adept consumers and there is no limit to the number of ways a corporation can package and sell us the same idea.









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=The Story of Stuff =

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-The Great Gatsby
==Here was an ugly  little girl asking for beauty . A surge of love and understanding swept through him, but was quickly replaced by anger. Anger that he was powerless to help her. Of all the wishes people had brought him - money, love, revenge  - this seemed to him the most poignant and the one most deserving of fulfillment. A little black girl who wanted to <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 22.5px;">rise up <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 15px;"> out of the pit of her blackness and see the world with <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 22.5px;">blue eyes <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 15px;">." - The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison ==


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