Ellen Willis's Quotes
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Born: 1941-12-14
Profession: Writer
Nation: American
Biography of Ellen Willis
By continually pushing the message that we have the right to gratification now, consumerism at its most expansive encouraged a demand for fulfillment that could not so easily be contained by products.
Tags: Demand, Encouraged, MessageMass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it.
Tags: Art, System, WhileMy deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.
Tags: Attitude, Necessary, SeemsOn one level the sixties revolt was an impressive illustration of Lenin's remark that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with.
Tags: Him, Impressive, Level