3 new ways to think about consumption
Giving Amazon the finger, and other ponderings.
A topical little quote I found on The Internet to get your juices flowing for this week’s issue (is that gross? I’m talking brain juice, people!):
Forget sales — everything is 100% off if you don’t buy it.
Poignant, no?
As I dig into my deepest thoughts and feelings about Stuff and how I’m living my life, I’ve had a few “aha” moments that might be helpful to share.
The push to consume is EVERYWHERE.
Capitalistic consumption has always been a feature of American life. I remember returning to the US after spending 3 months in South America backpacking as a teenager. I returned around Christmas time and remember feeling like I had entered a war zone with all the advertisements and commercialism around Christmas. It was a full assault on my senses, and deeply alienating after the peace of living a simpler life for 3 months. And this was in 2001, before the internet and iPhones took over our lives!
Once Instagram entered the picture in 2012 I felt singlehandedly responsible for the rise of a…