Vance Packard
Vance Packard
Vance Packardwas an American journalist, social critic, and author...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth22 May 1914
CountryUnited States of America
home police citizens
The most common characteristic of all police states is intimidation by surveillance. Citizens know they are being watched and overheard. Their mail is being examined. Their homes can be invaded.
past marketing unveiling
In the field of marketing . . . the trend toward selling [has] reached something of a nadir with the unveiling . . . of so-called subliminal projection. That is the technique designed to flash messages past our conscious guard.
agency america people
At one of the largest advertising agencies in America psychologists on the staff are probing sample humans in an attempt to find how to identify, and beam messages to, people of high anxiety, body consciousness, hostility, passiveness, and so on.
two political intellectual
If the person you are trying to diagnose politically is some sort of intellectual, the chances are two to one he is a Democrat.
christian redemption computer
The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer.
blue sky numbers
As businessmen caught a glimpse of the potentialities inherent in endlessly expanding the wants of people under consumerism, forced draft or otherwise, many began to see blue skies... What was needed was strategies that would make Americans in large numbers into voracious, wasteful, compulsive consumers-and strategies that would provide products assuring such wastefulness. Even where wastefulness was not involved, additional strategies were needed that would induce the public to consume at ever-higher levels.
music rocks hysteria
Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.
hysteria might monotony rock roll
Rock and roll might be summed up as monotony tinged with hysteria