From: Violet Beck (seizansha@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Feb 13 2002 - 16:08:41 MST
Im an american, people--anticonsumerism has been unfortunately bred out of
me. *grins* yup, i just jump for that britney spears pepsi ads.
>From: "Richard Ridge" <richard_ridge@tao-group.com>
>Reply-To: virus@lucifer.com
>To: <virus@lucifer.com>
>Subject: virus: And one for the road...
>Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 15:19:22 -0000
>
>
>http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/00000002D2EE.htm
>
>"But if there's anything the Buy Nothing Day brigade hate more than big
>corporations, hypermarkets and all-consuming brands it's consumers
>themselves - individual shoppers who are so weak and fickle that they would
>buy a tin of thin air if it was accompanied by a sexy advertising campaign.
>The Buy Nothing website warns of Britain's 'shopaholic epidemic': 'Known as
>omniomania, one woman in five is a shopaholic. The condition has been known
>to psychiatrists since the early 1900s but only now is it reaching epidemic
>proportions....Experts believe 10 percent of the UK population, and
>possibly
>20 percent of women, are manic, compulsive shoppers.'
>
>This is where Buy Nothing Day's 'floating sheep' come into it - the
>sheep-shaped balloons that the anti-consumerists will be flying in London's
>Covent Garden tomorrow. The sheep symbolise us shoppers, who apparently see
>advert, get brainwashed by advert, buy product, consume product - as
>unthinkingly as sheep follow each other into the pen. What about a
>Patronising Nobody Day, instead of this anti-shopper nonsense?"
>
>I take it that the meme comprised by said sheep did not prove especially
>fecund or longlived :-)
>
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