"It's very hard to imagine the phrase 'consumer society' used so cheerfully, and interpreted so enthusiastically, in England.“


-Julie Burchill

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It's very hard to imagine the phrase 'consumer society' used so cheerfully, and interpreted so enthusiastically, in England.

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