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Bruce Sterling Closes the 2011 Art+Environment Conference.

“People are going to get over talking about consumerism.  There’s sort of a lot of ritualistic condemnations of consumerism, and here, it’s gone, okay?  There’s no middle class.  There is no mass consumption.  It’s an old-fashioned problem; it’s a luxury problem.  There’s nobody there to do that for you— it’s an older person’s idea of a problem.  The prosperity machine broke years ago— it’s not coming back.”

(Source: rockpapershotgun.com)