Blog on your consumption patterns, trends and ethic. By class time.
First read Durning and Williams. This will help orient you to some of the issues.
Then reflect on your patterns of consuming. What sorts of things do you consume? own? want to own? Does consuming bring you happiness? Do you ever think about your consumption as having an impact on the environment? Do you find yourself thinking more about this? Would you say that our dominant culture is "materialist", i.e. oriented toward the acquisition of things and "living high on the hog"? What life decisions appear to follow from this?
If you have a consumption ethic, try to explain what that is for you. If you don't, try to imagine what yours might become, how it might evolve, and what choices that might yield.
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