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We Totally Heart Hippies

Beyond Robson points us to the fact that joy of joys, that Buy Nothing Day is just around the corner. Adbusters (who else) has the modus operandi: "For 24 hours, millions of people around the world do not participate -- in the doomsday economy, the marketing mind-games, and the frantic consumer-binge that's become our culture. We pause. We make a small choice not to shop. We shrink our footprint and gain some calm. Together we say: enough is enough. And we help build this movement to rethink our unsustainable course."

This would be really, really cute, if we were still in first year university and still had that massive school girl crush on Karl Marx, his amazingly sexy beard, and promises of wonderful collective economic utopia. Sigh.

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Posted by: sean orr

November 18, 2005 04:50 PM

Oh how original. Hippies. f course, comcern for the planet and the well being automatically makes you either a hippy or a communist, or a first year University student. Brilliant deduction. hey you should write for Vice magazine. Grow up man. This type of ironic detachment will be the death of us all.

Posted by: Jackson Murphy

November 19, 2005 10:39 AM

Ironic detachment will be the death of us all? Our bad. But if Adbusters can talk about gaining "some calm" - whatever the hell that means - we can have just a little bit of fun with their cute little buy nothing day, can't we?

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