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Observations | Renegade Consumer
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We don't buy it any more. Graphics & Documents. Excuse the Dust…. 1 Comment on Excuse the Dust…. Uh, is it quiet in here, or is it just me? It's just me. Sorry. It's been a long time since I added new material here, but that's (mostly) because I've been busy with the book and other related efforts. As fall approaches, I intend to make a series of new posts here and hopefully re-engage regular readers with the overall Renegade project. 1 Comment on Excuse the Dust…. 2 Comments on Dilbert: Renegade. Nasty,...
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RC Forum | Renegade Consumer
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We don't buy it any more. Graphics & Documents. A full-scale discussion forum will be added to the Renegade Consumer online presence in the near future. While blogs, Facebook and other more recent online media forms permit one-way communication with or without feedback, only the forum permits users to create their own starting topics and reply to any other on an even playing field. Forums also allow discussions to persist over long periods of time months, even years without scrolling off into oblivion.
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Renegade Consumer: essays | Renegade Consumer
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We don't buy it any more. Graphics & Documents. These essays are all adapted from the forthcoming book. Renegade Consumer: The Battle for Your Economic Freedom. More excerpts from the book and original material will be published here regularly. Until the book reaches public hands, these excerpts form the essential Renegade Consumer library. Most newcomers will find it best to read these essays in order, as the content and concepts in later entries build on that of prior ones. A Vision of the Wasteland.
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The Nihilism of “Buy Nothing” | Renegade Consumer
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We don't buy it any more. Graphics & Documents. The Nihilism of “Buy Nothing”. 1 Comment on The Nihilism of “Buy Nothing”. One of the most popular maxims in the existing anti-consumerism world is "Buy Nothing." From AdBusters' annual call for "Buy Nothing Day" to various other groups that focus around the phrase to discussions about consumerism that toss it off as a verity, "Buy Nothing" has come to occupy a prominent place in the evanescent image of anti-consumerism. The 20/20/20 Vision of Marketing.
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The Renegade Glossary | Renegade Consumer
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We don't buy it any more. Graphics & Documents. A significant part of seeing the world differently means seeing common words with a corrected definition, and creating new terms for things that are obscured or vaguely presented in existing terms. This glossary should help renegade readers grasp the specific meaning of the terminology used in these writings. These terms are all defined in context in the forthcoming book. The publicly displayed aspect of marketing efforts. An economic system that:. The focu...
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The Sell:øff Movement | Renegade Consumer
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We don't buy it any more. Graphics & Documents. The Sell:øff movement is a companion to the Renegade Consumer movement. It has the very limited focus of supporting individuals, groups and their combined numbers in the fight to push back against front-line marketing efforts. Or on the logo at left to open the Sell:øff movement site in a new window. Excuse the Dust…. The Nihilism of “Buy Nothing”. The 20/20/20 Vision of Marketing. On Excuse the Dust…. On The Nihilism of “Buy Nothing”.
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Quotes | Renegade Consumer
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We don't buy it any more. Graphics & Documents. History is full of Renegades, and not a few of them have made pithy observances about the madness of consumerism and the manipulation of buyers by industry and advertising. Here are a few. there are more to come. Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need. If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them.
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The 20/20/20° Vision of Marketing | Renegade Consumer
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We don't buy it any more. Graphics & Documents. The 20/20/20 Vision of Marketing. 1 Comment on The 20/20/20 Vision of Marketing. Here's one of the most telling jokes I know about marketing:. Launch day came, and within days the company knew they had a major hit on their hands. Warehouses ran dry and more production lines had to be switched over and run on three shifts to keep up with demand. Champagne flowed all around, not least at the marketing company. Makes me laugh every time. What I don't find funn...
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Cold Plated | Renegade Consumer
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We don't buy it any more. Graphics & Documents. 1 Comment on Cold Plated. I will start by saying this post will seem terribly quaint in just a few years. Visualize this: It's just a few years from now. You get an email coupon from a restaurant you know about but have never visited. The teaser headline reads, "So how come you keep driving by and never stop in for a piece of our. Welcome to the world of consumer big data. and Vigilant Solutions, Perceptics and Motorola. That's why you got all those offers ...
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