the goal of advertising is to rip a hole in your heart so it can then fill that hole with plastic, or with any other materials that can be yanked out of the earth and, after brief sojourns as objects of desire, be converted to waste: Kenneth A. Gould (PhD, Professor of Sociology and Urban Sustainability at Brooklyn College, Professor of Sociology and Earth and Environmental Sciences at the Graduate Center, City University of New York), interview by Helen Phillips, December 11, 2019, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY (direct quote).
