America is a consumer culture, and when we change what we buy - and how we buy it - we'll change who we are.
Send me out into another life. But get me back for supper.
The cliches of a culture sometimes tell the deepest truths.
Cocooning is about insulation and avoidance, peace and protection, coziness and control - a sort of hyper-nesting.
We are hungry for things that have touched human hands.
Too many marketers assume that future will hold back and wait until they're ready for it. It won't.