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Page 1 of 1Ellen Willis
December 14, 1941 - November 9, 2006
Nationality: American
Category: Writer
Subcategory: American Writer
|  Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it. | | By continually pushing the message that we have the right to gratification now, consumerism at its most expansive encouraged a demand for fulfillment that could not so easily be contained by products. | | My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect. | | In practice, attempts to sort out good erotica from bad porn inevitably comes down to: What turns me on is erotica; what turns you on is pornographic. | | On one level the sixties revolt was an impressive illustration of Lenin's remark that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with. |
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