Consumerism
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ah, the irony of consumerism:
after reading this article about a month ago i bought the book. it's sitting on the shelf for now while i read chomsky's hegemony or survival. what does this tell me? to educate myself, i must consume (especially when the library doesn't have the book). there is no way to not be a consumer and live in contemporary "western" culture - unless you move to a shack in the forest and live off the land. even the anti-consumer consumes on a daily basis. try using the net and coming on newstoday without a computer. we can make informed choices when we do consume but we can't take everything into consideration. i always love hearing the anti-Gap or nike people talk about their computers. where do you think they're made? do you think they are environmentally made? do you think those workers are any better off? consumerism is only a part of a larger socio-cultural problem. i'm looking forward to reading rebel sell. it