December 15, 2012

Attention Shoppers: Rethink The Season


From Adbusters

ATTENTION SHOPPERS!
As we max out our credit cards, we hope we will become America's economic heroes – saving the nation from the fiscal cliff. But instead, we plummet further into a complicated recession, and as our spirits sink once again, the economists coo into our ears that there is a way out – consume more, they say! This is the paradox of our addiction – filling the void only to fall deeper into it.

We're in a state of “pathological consumption,” George Monbiot explains, “a world-consuming epidemic of collective madness, rendered so normal by advertising and the media that we scarcely notice what has happened to us.”

The call to consume less – where it is heard – is denounced as pedantic, naive, authoritarian, even insane.

Decide for yourself where the insanity lies.

Read the rest of our #BuyNothingChristmas statement (a.k.a our brief, vehement, timely rant on consumerism) here: https://www.adbusters.org/blogs/buy-nothing-christmas.html

6 comments:

  1. After yesterday's tragedy in Newtown CT, it's clear that we need to spend more time with our children and stop thinking that expensive presents=love. Perhaps the awakening will now begin.

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    1. Yes, it definitely puts things into perspective. Something like that lets us remember that just being together is the most important part.

      We need each other, not stuff.

      Love = love. Sending some out to CT, and to all of you.

      Let the awakening begin.

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  2. namakemono12/15/2012

    Love the photo!! That`s what I need to be doing about now!

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    1. I think we would all benefit from a bit of peace and tranquility.

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  3. Thank you for this! Just the reminder I needed right now as Christmas draws near.

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    1. Have a happy non-consumer Christmas.

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