"but even then, most connections are still founded on consumption," he replied.
i am a book whore.
i devour books and love every page and every word. but i just can't let them go. i love to buy them and i love to keep them.
i have fanatasies about finishing a book and leaving it somewhere for someone to pick up, or giving it to someone so they can enjoy what i just enjoyed, but i can't. why is it so hard to let my possessions go? they are merely possessions after all. they don't make who i am. what i have read, and what has stuck in my head, makes who i am.
and somehow with books (and music too) i think it is different. it could be worse. it could be shoes or handbags or clothes. but atleast it's art, right? but how does this make it any different? they are still a commodity--a product of a capitalist society. and yet i try to justify it as something else.
Music to my ears: Sigur Ros
Words to live by: "A corporation has no soul, no morals. It cannot feel love, pain, or remorse. You cannot argue with it. A corporation is nothing but a process--an efficient way of generating revenue." ~Adbusters
In reality: 2 separate stories, yet both travesties in their own right. we're continually forced to become such mass consumers, that we are losing our sense of community (well, what's left of it)
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