Closed Wallets, Closed Minds
Consumption is what makes the world go round. It is, so many economists and politicians would have us believe, progress. If we do not consume enough we will soon be deeper in recession. Like it or not, shopping seems to be what is keeping us from the brink. We have had plenty of nega- tive experiences of recessions over the years. We have not even come out of the latest one yet. But there is a downside to this. Our consumption is slowly but surely destroying us – psychologically, spiritually, maybe even morally – and, more lite- rally, the world we live in. Our desire for novelty has not taken this into account – nothing has been allowed to stand in the way of our quest for new stuff, while credit and cheap labour has facilitated it.
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