TOMORROW...Buy Nothing Day

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Buy Nothing Day 2004--don't participate in the farce

 

http://doublethinkdouble.blogspot.com/Wednesday, November 24, 2004BND 2004

 

Does the mall rush on " black Friday " make you sick? Join in on Buy Nothing Day

and don't participate. Sponsored by Adbusters (my own personal oasis during

pangs of helpless cynicism and seething anger), it's a simple reaction to the

mindless mentality that " I must shop 'till I drop " this Nov. 26. Fill your belly

on Thursday, empty your wallet on Friday - why? Resist the bovine vapidity of

traffic jams, long lines, and the beep-beep-beep of barcode scanners. Go hiking,

sit inside and take shots, make a diorama - do anything but spend money this

Friday.

 

Does this mean you can't buy anything this Christmas? Certainly not. Do you have

to recycle trash to give to your friends instead of making thoughtful purchases?

Not exactly. Does it mean you make a conscious decision to depart from the

consumer binge that plagues the Friday after Thanksgiving for no discernable

reason? Absolutely. This effort is more about breaking the consumer binge

routine that blankets this time of year, and for some people, gives them the

false sense that " the shit you buy " will " fill the void. " Adbusters takes " black

Friday " as indicative of this consumer halfwittery, and makes a concerted effort

to disrupt it through boycotting and other more proactive methods.

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Sincerely,

 

Daniel P. Welch

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