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A Catholic View of Poetry and Civilization: Humans are language animals; this is why poetry has always had the power to move the very core of humans from its inception to today.
The Waste Makers Paperback – October 4, 2011 by Vance Packard (Author), Bill McKibben (Introduction) https://www.amazon.com/Waste-Makers-Vance-Packard/dp/1935439375 An exposé of "the systematic attempt of business to make us wasteful, debt-ridden, permanently discontented individuals," The Waste Makers is Vance Packard's pioneering 1960 work on how the rapid growth of disposable consumer goods was degrading the environmental, financial, and spiritual character of American society. The Waste Makers was the first book to probe the increasing commercialization of American life—the development of consumption for consumption's sake. Packard outlines the ways manufacturers and advertisers persuade consumers to buy things they don't need and didn't know they wanted, including the two-of-a-kind of everything syndrome—"two refrigerators in every home"—and appeals to purchase something because it is more expensive, or because it is painted in a new
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