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By Russ on October 29th, 2003
But Who’s Counting?
But Who’s Counting?
I’m continually confused about the citizen / consumer divide in Ofcom matters. . . so I full-text searched Ofcom’s .pdf file of its consultation document, The Future Regulation of Broadcast Advertising, and came up with the following:
‘consumer(s)’ — appears 30 times in the document
‘citizen(s)’ — appears 1 time in the document
This immediately caused me to reflect on the teachings of Raoul Vaneigem, Belgian Situationist philosopher:
In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption. The dictatorship of consumer goods has finally destroyed the barriers of blood, lineage and race.
So sayeth the Church Elders.
