buy nothing day

I'm going to rise above it all. And buy nothing today.



Adbusters does some amazing anti-capitalist work over the last few years. And I'm glad that the movement is taking shape. They've had santas chanting outside Tokyo department stores, anti-consumerist fairs on college campuses and postering campaigns in London. Good for adbusters.

They might just wake a few consumer zombies up to the uselessness of it all. Such waste! And for what? To sublimate our true desires for happiness by buying into the dominant consumer paradigm? Well, I don't buy that at all.

So I'm not buying anything today. Join me, won't you?

[soundtrack: The sound of a cash register not going "cha-ching."]