November 24, 2009
Buy Nothing Day
On November 27th (Black Friday), the biggest shopping day of the year, AdBusters (a not-for-profit, anti-consumerist organization) is calling for millions of people across the globe to put away their cash and credit cards for 24 hours. AdBusters’ purpose for event is to get consumers to bring an end to frivolous spending and transcend the realm of materialism.
Kalle Lasn, Co-founder of Adbusters believes that meaningless spending was one of the factors that caused the finanical meltdown of 2008.
“It’s our culture of excess and meaningless consumption — the glorified spending and borrowing of the past decade that’s at the root of the crisis we now find ourselves in.”
Economic meltdown, together with the ecological crisis of climate change could be the beginning of a major global cultural shift — the dawn of a new age: the age of Post-Materialism.
“A simpler, pared-down lifestyle – one in which we’re not drowning in debt – may well be the answer to this crisis we’re in,” says Lasn. “Living within our means will also make us happier and healthier than we’ve been in years.”
On a side note, its ironic the individuals in the costumes protesting consumerism in the bottom photo probably spent a little bit of money for the makeup, hats and costumes with corporate logos. In a way, they still are contributing to capitalistic monster they sought to fight. Sounds wasteful and hypocritical to me, just saying.
via Adbusters
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