Without Implied Consent: Our Economy of Consumption

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Without Implied Consent: The Willing Abandonment of Values, Traditions, and a Meaningful Existence for the Sake of Success in the Economy of Consumption
It is a ritual in which I had taken delight. On this particular weekday, however, a new perspective on something that I had previously ignored changed forever my ritual. Prior to placing the plastic coffee basket into its familiar port at the top of the coffee machine, I recognized a caking of sorts on the Mr. Coffee water purification filter. This disc-like item, grey in color needed to be replaced, according to the owner’s manual. A quick Google search led me to discover that for $3.99, and a quick trip in my car to the local Home Depot, and purer coffee drinking would be mine. The...

.....ity of my own experience, without all of the bells and whistles of the endless onslaught of merchandising which promises so much, but ultimately can give no more than a cheap substitute for the magnitude of the moment. For me, it superficially meant saving $3.99, but intrinsically meant the savings of millions.
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