The Gospel of Consumption

We can break that cycle by turning off our machines when they have created enough of what we need.

I read an amazing article on consumerism / social justice / democracy / economics this morning:
http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/2962

Rather than realizing the enriched social life that Kellogg’s vision offered us, we have impoverished our human communities with a form of materialism that leaves us in relative isolation from family, friends, and neighbors. We simply don’t have time for them. Unlike our great-grandparents who passed the time, we spend it. An outside observer might conclude that we are in the grip of some strange curse, like a modern-day King Midas whose touch turns everything into a product built around a microchip.