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Please see the discussion on the talk page. | Affluenza is a term used by critics of consumerism. It is a portmanteau word formed by the contraction of affluence and influenza. Sources define this term as follows: Image File history File links Unbalanced_scales. ...
Consumerism is a term used to describe the effects of equating personal happiness with purchasing material possessions and consumption. ...
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Influenza, commonly known as the flu, is an infectious disease of birds and mammals caused by an RNA virus of the family Orthomyxoviridae (the influenza viruses). ...
- affluenza, n. a painful, contagious, socially transmitted condition of overload, debt, anxiety and waste resulting from the dogged pursuit of more. (de Graaf, 2002)
- affluenza, n. 1. The bloated, sluggish and unfulfilled feeling that results from efforts to keep up with the Joneses. 2. An epidemic of stress, overwork, waste and indebtedness caused by dogged pursuit of the American Dream. 3. An unsustainable addiction to economic growth. (PBS)
According to the 2005 Australian book titled Affluenza by Clive Hamilton and Richard Denniss, the term was popularized in the United States by the 1997 documentary of the same name from KCTS and Seattle and Oregon Public Broadcasting. John de Graaf, producer of the documentary, also co-authored a book with the same title. In medicine, infectious disease or communicable disease is disease caused by a biological agent such as by a virus, bacterium or parasite. ...
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Anxiety is a complex combination of emotions that includes fear, apprehension and worry, and is often accompanied by physical sensations such as palpitations, nausea, chest pain and/or shortness of breath. ...
WASTE is a peer-to-peer and friend-to-friend protocol and software application developed by Justin Frankel at Nullsoft in 2003 that features instant messaging, chat rooms & file browsing/sharing capabilities. ...
Growth Fetish is a book about economics and politics by the Australian left-wing political theorist Clive Hamilton. ...
KCTS is a public television station in Seattle, Washington, affiliated with the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), that broadcasts on analog channel 9, HDTV broadcasts are on channel 41. ...
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Affluenza in America
The American middle class is often criticized for never being satisfied. People are constantly wanting new things and are never satisfied with what they have. Affluenza ties into criticisms that there is a superabundance of popular culture. The middle class (or middle classes) comprises a social group once defined by exception as an intermediate social class between the nobility and the peasantry. ...
Consumerism has been criticized by many groups in America ranging from the hippies of the 1960s to religious groups in the 1990s. Consumerism is a term used to describe the effects of equating personal happiness with purchasing material possessions and consumption. ...
Hippies (singular hippie or sometimes hippy) were members of the 1960s counterculture movement who adopted a communal or nomadic lifestyle, renounced corporate nationalism and the Vietnam War, embraced aspects of Buddhism, Hinduism, and/or Native American religious culture, and were otherwise at odds with traditional middle class Western values. ...
The 1960s decade refers to the years from January 1, 1960 to December 31, 1969, inclusive. ...
See also 1990s, the band The 1990s decade refers to the years from 1990 to 1999, inclusive, sometimes informally including popular culture from the late 1980s and shortly after the year 2000. ...
Affluenza is sinking into American popular culture. A 2002 Sheryl Crow song features the line "it's not having what you want. It's wanting what you've got." The latest Simpsons Halloween Special notes Homer saying that animals in zoos are "bored, obese, and have lost their sense of meaning. The American Dream." Popular culture, or pop culture, (literally: the culture of the people) consists of the cultural elements that prevail (at least numerically) in any given society, mainly using the more popular media, in that societys vernacular language and/or an established lingua franca. ...
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I am BORED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ...
Obesity is an excess storage of fat and can affect any mammal, such as the mouse on the left. ...
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Affluenza in Australia Hamilton and Denniss's book poses the question: "if the economy has been doing so well, why are we not becoming happier?" (pvii). The authors note that Australia's GDP doubled between 1980 and 2005 (p3), but that "it is now well established that once income levels reach a particular threshold further increases do not increase national happiness" (p63). 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ...
2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Their conclusion is as follows: "Since the early 1990s, Australia has been infected by affluenza, a growing and unhealthy preoccupation with money and material things. This illness is constantly reinforcing itself at both the individual and the social levels, constraining us to derive our identities and sense of place in the world through our consumption activity." (p178) They argue that affluenza causes over-consumption, "luxury fever", consumer debt, overwork, waste, and harm to the environment. These pressures lead to "psychological disorders, alienation and distress" (p179), causing people to "self-medicate with mood-altering drugs and excessive alcohol consumption" (p180). See also 1990s, the band The 1990s decade refers to the years from 1990 to 1999, inclusive, sometimes informally including popular culture from the late 1980s and shortly after the year 2000. ...
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Over-consumption is a concept coined in developing nations to counter the rhetoric of over-population by which developed nations judge them as consuming more than their economy can support. ...
Consumer debt is consumer credit which is outstanding. ...
They note that substantial numbers of Australians have reacted by "downshifting" — that is, they have made a decision to "reduce their incomes and place family, friends and contentment above money in determining their life goals" (p180). (While Hamilton and Denniss recognize voluntary simplicity as a component of downshifting, they characterize downshifters in broader terms.) Voluntary simplicity (or simple living) is a lifestyle considered by its adherents to be a sustainable, ecologically sensitive alternative to the typical, western consumerist lifestyle. ...
Their critique leads them to identify the need for an "alternative political philosophy" (p193), and the book concludes with a "political manifesto for wellbeing" (see [1]).
Affluenza in popular culture In the album "Un"(2004), Chumbawamba refers to the disease in the track "Buy nothing day".
Chumbawamba playing live at Luton Library, May 1985 Chumbawamba is a band from the UK who play pop music with influences of folk, punk, dance and other styles of popular music. ...
My doctor told me to stay out of town, Buy, buy, buy
He said, "Affluenza will get you down", Buy, buy, buy
References - Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic, John de Graaf, David Wann & Thomas H. Naylor, ISBN 1-57675-199-6
- The Circle of Simplicity, Cecile Andrews, ISBN 0-06-092872-7
- Voluntary Simplicity, Duane Elgin, ISBN 0-688-12119-5
- "Voluntary Simplicity", Daniel Doherty & Amitai Etzioni, ISBN 0-7425-2066-8
- Affluenza: when too much is never enough, Clive Hamilton and Richard Denniss, Allen & Unwin 2005, ISBN 1-74114-671-2
Growth Fetish is a book about economics and politics by the Australian left-wing political theorist Clive Hamilton. ...
See also The Amish (IPA: , Pennsylvania Dutch: ) are an Anabaptist Christian denomination found in the United States and Ontario, Canada, that are known for their restrictions on the use of modern devices such as automobiles and electricity and for their plain dress. ...
Anti-consumerism is the rejection of consumerism. ...
Consumerism is a term used to describe the effects of equating personal happiness with purchasing material possessions and consumption. ...
Frugality (also known as thrift or thriftiness), often confused with cheapness or miserliness, is a traditional value, life style, or belief system, in which individuals practice both restraint in the acquiring of and resourceful use of economic goods and services in order to achieve lasting and more fulfilling goals. ...
This article addresses materialism in the economic sense of the word. ...
Over-consumption is a concept coined in developing nations to counter the rhetoric of over-population by which developed nations judge them as consuming more than their economy can support. ...
Simple living (similar but not identical to voluntary simplicity or voluntary poverty) is a lifestyle individuals may pursue for a variety of motivations, such as spirituality, health, or ecology. ...
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