the tragedy of too much stuff

In a capitalist society obsessed with things — the latest, the highest-tech, the coolest — we are been taught by corporations to be hoarders. That dirty label is not longer saved for crazy cat-ladies with bulging rooms of knick-knacks and depression-scarred lunatics.
This piece on Weekend America about the tragedy that is our junk and the [...]

Buy Nothing Day sails over press’ heads

While people are being trampled by customers in the wee hours of the morning on this Black Friday, many are confronting the control consumerism has on Western culture by rejecting that frenzied need to buy, buy, BUY.
Unfortunately, even independent National Public Radio is jumping on the buy-bandwagon with reports almost harrowing shoppers as heroes in [...]