Today is Black Friday in the United States, the start of the Christmas shopping season. It’s also Buy Nothing Day, a day of protest against consumerism promoted by Adbusters magazine. But if they’re against consumerism, I wish they’d explain what they want to replace it with. If obtaining and consuming goods and services is not the purpose of our participation in the national economy, then what is?
They never say. Then again, nobody listens to them anyway.
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