Re: Re: [discuss-dan] Steal Something Day

[harnke@aol.com]

Does "Buy Nothing Day" counter the corporate consumer driven culture we live 
in?
Will people understand and be sympathetic towards it? Will "Buy Nothing Day" 
lead to contemplation on deeper issues? If so, I'm all for it.

Ben

In a message dated 12/6/00 1:42:12, you wrote:

<<Of Course Adbuster is a reformist publication.  The
whole idea of "Buy Nothing Day" is elitist, oh yeah, I
can afford the luxury of making no purchases one day a
year because I won't have to take a bus to work or put
gas in my car to get to work.  It's just like Critical
Mass which is elitist in the sense that if you live on
6th and Tennyson you don't work near there and public
transprtation is a joke, the light rail will probably
never go to that neighborhood, so riding your bike is
not an option, I like steal something it really takes
from capitalism, hell, steal Adbusters! Stan>>


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