All Consuming: How Shopping Got Us Into This Mess And How We Can Find Our Way Out
Posted by The Geecologist | Filed under Truth
When Tony Blair came to power in 1997, there were 129 shoplifters in prison; now there are 1,400.
This dark side of our consumer culture is hardly ever discussed. Prison is an easy way to deal with the symptom, but few want to look at the causes of empty lives and useless materialistic hopes; at the [...]
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