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Since people inevitably “project themselves into objects” and perpetually suffer from “constructive discontent,” advertisers should promote and orchestrate this “dynamic relationship of constant interaction.” Dichter realized that constructive discontent would be the axis of a new moral imagination, mandating a transvaluation of values as profound as any ever envisioned
The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity
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