“I have experienced as violence the emergence of the culture of compulsory industrialised joy, which is the companion of consumerism.”

The Guardian, 11 December 2004 http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1371413,00.html

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“I have experienced as violence the emergence of the culture of compulsory industrialised joy, which is the companion of consumerism.”

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