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Fight Club. Directed by David Fincher, Fox 2000 Pictures/Regency Enterprises/Linson Films, 1999.
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Veblen, Thorstein. The Theory of the Leisure Class, edited by Martha Banta. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 3.
American Beauty. Directed by Sam Mendes, Jinks/Cohen Company, 1999.
Mitchell, Joni. "Big Yellow Taxi." Ladies of the Canyon. Reprise Records, 1970.
Veblen, Thorstein. The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study in the Evolution of Institutions. Macmillan, 1899, ch. 4.
Veblen, Thorstein. The Theory of the Leisure Class, edited by Martha Banta. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 4.
Miller, Arthur. The Price. 7 Feb. 1968, Morosco Theatre, New York City, NY, USA, act 1.
Illich, Ivan. Tools for Conviviality. Harper & Row, 1973, ch. 3.
Sayers, Dorothy. Creed or Chaos? Methuen & Co., 1947, ch. 6.
Didion, Joan. "The Insidious Ethic of Conscience." The American Scholar, 1965.
Didion, Joan. "On Morality." Slouching Towards Bethlehem. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968.
Nash, Ogden. "Song of the Open Road." The New Yorker, 15 Oct. 1932.
Ginsberg, Allen. "A Supermarket in California." Howl and Other Poems. City Lights Books, 1956.
Stevens, Brooks. Quoted in The Waste Makers, by Vance Packard. Simon & Schuster, 1960, ch. 6.
Miracle on 34th Street. Directed by George Seaton, 20th Century Fox, 1947.