Buy Nothing Day

>> I've never gone shopping on this day, and I never will (although I don't count throwing gas in the car while I picked up a prescription or a gallon of milk as 'shopping' but I suppose some die-hards would). <<

I have before, which is partly how I know I don't like it. When people want to shop together, and that's the only time they have for it, then it's more understandable.

>>For me, the whole Thanksgiving / Christmas thing has got way out of hand, too representative of gluttony and greed and commercialism.<<

I agree. I enjoy the holiday season, but too much of a good thing is trouble.

>>I just have a very bad intuition about the future of the society of over-consumption.<<

The problem with that is, the whole system is unsustainable; you can't have infinite growth in a finite system. That should be obvious. But almost nobody seems to understand that, or be willing to consider alternatives. So we have economic crashes and we run out of resources.

I think about Easter Island and worry.
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