e-commentary

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K          “They function as consumers yet do not engage as citizens.”

J          “Exactly.  Someone remarked that Americans should be described as ‘consumers’ propelling an economy but not as ‘citizens’ participating in a Republic.”

K          “The kleptocracy does not desire citizens but does demand consumers who demand unreflectively the things they supply.”

J          “The kleptocracy or the kakistocracy?  What happens when they have consumed all they can afford to consume?  Are they consumed?”

K          “When they have spent all they can spend and have borrowed and borrowed and borrowed and borrowed all they can borrow, they are spent . . . and exspentable.”

J          “It is a very real question.  If they could not consume, would they be allowed to exist?  Do they exist?”

. . .

J          “They would be starved.”

K          “Aren’t 80 percent of them being starved?”

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[See the e-commentary at “Is The American Consumer Irrelevant? (December 12, 2011)”, “The ‘Superfluous Consumer’ (July 27, 2015)”, “Kids As Consumer Durables (August 6, 2007)”, “Consume, Don’t Invest? (November 9, 2009)”, “Henrietta And Henry O, Two Young Lovers: The Contemporary Gift Of The Magi (December 27, 2010)”, “On Community (June 3, 2013)”, “On Roiling And Rolling Collapse (March 9, 2015)” and “The Taxonomy Of The American Economy (May 21, 2018)”.]

Bumper stickers of the week:

Fathers are people too, sort of

I consume, therefore I am

I consume, ergo sum

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