CONSUMED [Benjamin R. Barber]

PLAYING ON CHILD/ADULT DUALISMS

'IMPULSE over DELIBERATION;

FEELING over REASON;                       

CERTAINTY over UNCERTAINTY;

DOGMATISM over DOUBT;

PLAY over WORK;

PICTURES over WORDS;

IMAGES over IDEAS;

PLEASURE over HAPPINESS; 

INSTANT GRATIFICATION over LONG-TERM SATISFACTION;

EGOISM over ALTRUISM; 

NARCISSISM over SOCIABILITY;

RIGHT over RESPONSIBILITY; 

PHYSICAL SEXUALITY over EROTIC LOVE;

INDIVIDUALISM over COMMUNITY;

IGNORANCE over KNOWLEDGE'.  

'Such an ungainly set of dyads offers a telling psychological landscape'

'That landscape's contours are reduced here to three archetypical dualisms that capture infantilization: EASY over HARD, SIMPLE over COMPLEX, and FAST over SLOW.'