There is "no trait more characteristic for us than our inability for keeping mentally up to date - up to our production."
 

"The fact of the permanently growing a-synchronity of human beeing with its world of products, the fact of the distance widening from day to day - we call it 'the promethean gradient'."
 

"Today the word 'nude' does not mean the unclothed, but the unworked body."
 

"Every kind of leisure has today a secret family likeness with unemployment."
 

"Our needs are now nothing more than the imprints or reproductions of the needs of the goods themselves."
 

"It is nearly impossible to exclude oneself from the minimum of buys, that are offered and commanded as so called 'musts'. Who tries it, runs the risk to rank as 'introverted', to lose his prestige and his career, to show himself as impecunious - and even the risk to make himself morally and politically suspicious."
 

Günther Anders' categorical imperative: "Have only those things whose maxims of operation could become maxims of your own acting."
 

"Abundance is the mother of unimaginativeness."
 

"We shape our world according to the pictures of the world."
 

"The flood of disconnected pictures shall prevent us from evolving a view of the world and even prevent us from realizing that a view of the world is missing."
 
 
 

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