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The relatively new trouble with mass society is perhaps even more serious, but not because of the masses themselves, but because this society is essentially a consumersā society where leisure time is used no longer for self-perfection or acquisition of more social status, but for more and more consumption and more and more entertainmentā¦ To believe that such a society will become more āculturedā as time goes on and education has done its work, is, I think, a fatal mistake. The point is that a consumersā society cannot possibly know how to take care of a world and the things which belong exclusively to the space of worldly appearances, because its central attitude toward all objects, the attitude of consumption, spells ruin to everything it touches."Between Past and Future"
The ideals of homo faber, the fabricator of the world, which are permanence, stability, and durability, have been sacrificed to abundance, the ideal of the animal laborans."The Human Condition"