over consumption

But here’s the tragic thing, advertisers, multinationals, pop-culture, politics and unwittingly our friends, peers and neighbours have convinced us that the good life is found in the accumulation of stuff and experiences. It’s the vision of the good life given to us by ‘consumerism’. On this measure, if any nation has mastered the good-life, it should be us. Yet the evidence suggests that if this is the good-life than something has gone deeply awry…