Tuesday, July 27, 2010

false leisure

Most Americans divide their lives in two, work and play, earning and consuming; they drag themselves through work to reach the promised land of leisure, the ecstasy of the defining car, suit, house, or vacation that settles for all time who they are. The disgust with work makes the act of buying things an arena of anxiety and triumph. Alienation exists at all levels of American society. It is called consumerism.


         





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