"Consumerism is our national religion."
"It is the psychic depression of decadence which has come to this place and time. It is what happens to people who ignore their artists and deny their children. It is a terminal case of involutional melancholia which comes from within and cannot be cured by T.V. or psychotherapy or anything but a creative life, which is hard to come by in a country where it doesn't pay to do anything for yourself."
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Source: Jennifer Stone (1988). “Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television”
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