I Shop, Therefore: I Am

“I shop therefore I am” by  Barbara Kruger, 1987 

Posted by "CavalierZee"


“I spent my time drinking and staring at a television in the airport bar. More death and destruction. Crime. Pollution. All the news stories were telling me to be frightened. 

All the commercials were telling me to buy things I didn´t need. 


The message was that people could only be passive victims or consumers.” 

[John Twelve Hawks, The Traveler]

"Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need. 

The things you own end up owning you. It's only after you lose everything that you're free to do anything."

[Fight Club]