Evolution The violent spirit to forge a civilization vol 1

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─The idea of consumer culture, or cultural consumption


"Sexuality" is one of the most complicated words in everyday language, yet


the term is most often taken as taboo. Sexuality, by its "nature", seems to


take the "golden palm" of censorship. Although nowadays it has become


fashionable to see sexuality as a by-product of consumer culture on the


internet, culture, etymologically speaking, is a concept derived from the


evolution of "homo sapiens" with nature.


─Etymology of culture. It has reference in the Latin culture, based on the


adjective cults, referring to the cultured individual in the framework of the


knowledge gathered and/or appropriate behavior (clarifying the need to


recognize and differentiate the variant as a noun, from which ceremonies,


groups or religious movements are understood), linked to the verb colere,


interpreted as to cultivate, with reference in the Indo-European *kwel-, to


resolve or turn, complemented by the suffix - ūra, in function of the


substantiation. https://etimologia.com/cultura/


─cultural consumption. Cultural consumption is the acquisition of goods or


services, whose assigned and perceived value is different from the utilitarian


or mercantile one. https://economipedia.com/definiciones/consumo-cultural.html


Whereas "consumer culture" has evolved in line with the planned


transformations of the economic system. A century ago, the concept of


"Fordism" (^) [ 15 ] arose, which refers to the system based on chain or mass


production. It gave rise to mass consumption, which became an


unprecedented social phenomenon. During the crisis of the 1970 s, large


companies became obsolete, oil prices skyrocketed; inflation was a major


problem, although passenger tourism continued to rise.


These far-reaching changes in the consumer culture had to do with the


oversaturation of markets, with greater social stratification and tendencies


towards distinction that made it possible to cater for increasingly

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