Affluenza: Adulthood (Part 2)
vor 12 Jahren
Our final installment in the Affluenza series. On this weeks
show we finish taking a look at the history of Affluenza [Defined
by Wikipedia as "a painful, contagious, socially transmitted
condition of overload, debt, anxiety and waste resulting from the
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vor 12 Jahren
Our final installment in the Affluenza series. On this weeks
show we finish taking a look at the history of Affluenza [Defined
by Wikipedia as "a painful, contagious, socially transmitted
condition of overload, debt, anxiety and waste resulting from the
dogged pursuit of more"]. We start with the explosion of TV
in the post-WWII economy and work our way thru the introduction of
credit cards, presidential campaigns that employ advertisers
(1952), the philosophy of retail shopping, the hippie movement,
Jimmy Carter's stunning anti-consumerism speech, the deregulation
of the Reagan era and how Microsoft convinced millions of consumers
to install active cameras and microphones in living rooms across
the country. [Click to Listen]
show we finish taking a look at the history of Affluenza [Defined
by Wikipedia as "a painful, contagious, socially transmitted
condition of overload, debt, anxiety and waste resulting from the
dogged pursuit of more"]. We start with the explosion of TV
in the post-WWII economy and work our way thru the introduction of
credit cards, presidential campaigns that employ advertisers
(1952), the philosophy of retail shopping, the hippie movement,
Jimmy Carter's stunning anti-consumerism speech, the deregulation
of the Reagan era and how Microsoft convinced millions of consumers
to install active cameras and microphones in living rooms across
the country. [Click to Listen]
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