शुभं भवतु !
शुभं भवतु । सर्वसङ्ग्रामा निवर्तन्ताम् । क्षुधापिपासेत्यादिदुःखान्यपयान्तु । सर्वे तत्त्वमवबुध्यन्ताम् । सर्वेषु भूतेषु शुभं भवतु ।
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The Story of Stuff
Several years back a few sociology friends asked me how I felt about consumption. In retrospect, they were clearly expecting a theoretical response analyzing it in the abstract–its relation to labor, the production of commodities, etc. But I couldn’t get past the concrete ways consumption plays out in American consumerism: the colonial-style oppression of the [...]
Posted at 4:32 अपराह्न on दिसम्बर 7, 2008 | 1 comment | Filed Under: consumption | Tagged: big business, Chomsky, consumerism, consumption, environmentalism, grad co-op, materialism | read on
