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| Afu Chan |
Year after year, the Addbusters
Magazine propagandizes “Buy Nothing Day”:
On Nov 25/26th we escape the mayhem and unease of the biggest shopping day in North America and put the breaks on rabid consumerism for 24 hours. Flash mobs, consumer fasts, mall sit-ins, community events, credit card-ups, whirly-marts and jams, jams, jams!
The idea, I suppose, is the usual sort
of thing: make a stand, send a message, have something to talk and
write about... and then go right back to consuming. On the day after
“Buy Nothing Day,” for instance, you could buy a glossy copy of
Addbusters Magazine at the check-out counter at Whole Foods. Last I
checked, you could do so in the more liberal Cambridge,
Massachusetts, but not in the more conservative Brookline,
Massachusetts right across the river. The cultural battle lines are
clearly drawn.
