Consumerism Is The Perfection Of Slavery:

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. I think that it does minimise slavery

There's a lot more than that wrong with it, of course - I think the guy is too young to be able to opine about what happened in the 80s, when there are plenty of people who were adults then who can put him right. He's a really annoying lecturer; he has a tendency to say "this is right" without explanation. He pretends consumerism was invented in the 80s; he pretends that suddenly, it was the only way to behave - he keeps on saying "it's the only way to think". And this pretence is his basis for saying it's slavery. And, yes, that does minimise the horror of real slavery.

I heartily recommend that everyone skips the video. It's rubbish.