Productive Consumption

Famous quotes containing the words productive and/or consumption:

    The result of civilization, at the Sandwich Islands and elsewhere, is found productive to the civilizers, destructive to the civilizees. It is said to be compensation—a very philosophical word; but it appears to be very much on the principle of the old game, “You lose, I win”: good philosophy for the winner.
    Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption ... is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.
    Guy Debord (b. 1931)