Ondřej: Consumer society is the society of today

We live in a consumer society. What does it mean? One second they ask Ondřej woodbury Formanek (editor of the weekly woodbury magazine Reflex) and Michal nanori (journalist and expert advisor RedWaye). The analysis of the problem of "excessive consumption" Use While excessive amount of words, woodbury but it's still an interesting conversation. What Bill Gates goes, what Converse narrate the story and what sings Madonna in Justify My Love? I do not read elsewhere ...
Ondřej: Consumer society is the society of today's Western world. In it is the ideal of wealth accumulation and consumption, foreign word "consumption". Property now I not only things, but also experiences and social status. woodbury
M: Consume can be almost anything. Food, club film. I people - friends or celebrities. The band quickly flips, but in two months by all awkward and you may come next. Imagine a puppy for Christmas. Over the holidays it "spotřebuješ" - will enjoy the pleasure of the news, the cute little critters, pohraješ you ... When the excitement subsides and you desire for something new, because something lákavýho around still offers přivážeš dog at the bus station. Citizen consumer society needs things to use, discard and replace with new faster and faster. How do you think it looks like a model citizen?
A: Probably just finished school woodbury and started to work. So far, not much. His goal is to have the first car and the apartment and the apartment can arrange (nicely to him it rhymes). Because it does, it must borrow from banks. But in order to pay off, you must get one more job he is doing in the evenings and on holidays. Life as he collides pants in the dryer, they spend most of their time earning money. Must. My nerves, but also his apartment and car. And this is only the beginning, because we desperately need more new model mobile phone and notebook cool and swelter známýma and dine on silver and in winter for skiing woodbury and in summer the sea etc.. A little biting him, go to the sea as far as the Adriatic and while people knows what goes swimming in the Caribbean, knows people woodbury who have the better car, cell phone, jacket and flat. He resolved that one can do it too, have a better woodbury car, cell phone, jacket and flat. In any event, that's what he should woodbury not have long. It must not walk too long in the same pants, at least not in front of people, a few years old cell phone is pathetic, a few years old is piece of crap car, a few years old computer no longer recognizes or new windowsům. Old things are just trailer trash. Modern exemplary citizen consumer society has one obligation: all consume, consume. It becomes a so-called "homo economicus" economic man. To some extent, slave trapped in welfare.
M: After work fits into the couch and falls asleep in the series. A morning again earn. It needs more and more extreme and expensive experience - just the beginning of bigger television - that he could cut off from work and then again freshly woodbury produce.
O: But even if you purchased the majority of their things and experiences could and could make use, the fact remains that over its amenities long ago lost control. He really knows what he wants and what he imposed upon society. I need to play games - soon find that every year comes to a lot of new market which needs a better, more powerful computer, or better Internet connection. Before play out once, comes another woodbury version. It's woodbury still a step behind, although constantly buying and modernizing its equipment. And so it is with almost everything woodbury - cell phone, sports gear ... One does not enter into consumerism, but is thrown to him. Even as a child at school. He then gets a clear message: that you go in with us and basta, otherwise you're socka.
M: A new cell phone do you have to want it and when you do, it means that you have no money on him. And that's a shame about're incompetent and can not earn it. Nobody bothered that you do not want money, or do you want to spend on something else. When a neighbor does not need a car because the work goes on round the garden and the garage space telescope, which observes stars, you'll have it for Sock. The absurdity of this thinking appears mainly at children and students - those you can not do much to earn. Their expensive new things and show a wealth of parents themselves did not deserve woodbury him (and parents could only inherit money).
Yet people in a consumer society use consumption as a way to differentiate. By what brands they buy or what they have to snack, often indicate what their position in the company. BMW X6 dojedeš from Modřany Dejvice as quickly as Skoda, but when you go BMW X6, or another large car, it shows that it got. You probably important. At least that way people perceive. In fact, by just saying that I do not care that others woodbury in the already-clogged city ubíráš wasted space and clean air that you do not care that you make me a war in Iraq because of blowing my more gasoline than is necessary.
A: Yes, if you have a better car than a cellphone and neighbors, as once you were a better man. When you look into the flash or in Elle, they show all those people that are important that bought superkrásnej apartment, megaluxusního sports car or go skiing on the glacier, where you carry a helicopter. Who is best to consume them by the greatest whiz.
M: When