Ok, consumer culture is neither sustainable nor desirable for a happy life. But it's impossible to live without consuming, if only food and water. Maybe we've just lost the balance between consumption and production, between passive and active, between wanting things and participating in their creation.
So how to participate? Ideas are welcome here. Get around under your own power by walking & biking? Grow your own food? How about this: pick your favorite consumable, then figure out how to make it. If you love movies, film a youtube video. If you love video games, design your own. If you love clothes, learn how to sew. If nothing else, the extra time it takes to make your own anything is time not spent at the mall.
There! Problem solved. Now we can go back to trying not to think about the vp debate tonight.
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