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Happy Buy Nothing Day

Today is Buy Nothing day. I'm just about off to go protest at West Edmonton Mall but I thought I might write a short blurb on here first. I'm going to protest today because too much of our culture is based upon consumerism. Actually it's entirely based on consumerism, and people are living less and less and substituting purchases for happiness. The biggest problem is that spending money doesn't fill the happiness void for very long and thus a horrible cycle is born.

I don't like being a consumer. Consumer isn't even in the right word anymore, we have become plunderers. The earth suffers because of our malice and ignorance. 80% of the world suffers because of our malice and ignorance. And I still don't know all the fact and wish I had them to dazzle you with, but all I have is one large ugly picture of us raping the world to make a buck. Well it's not the way I'd like to pass things onto my children, I hope everyone reading this feels the same way.

posted by Rob and Lauren @ 5:08 PM