Tag: consumerism

Money and morality. I laughed out loud when I first heard this was the next Coffee Talk topic!

I aspire to eat healthy, minimally processed foods that I prepare myself, with local ingredients, in my own kitchen. I also have a bottomless appetite for trash, and often indulge in curly fries, frozen pizza, and pretty much anything in burrito form.

Rampant consumerism can be seen as the exploitation of the consumer. It has imposed financial slavery to most, and much of the time is a liar at best.

Remember that part of the Bible where it says that you cannot serve both God and money? We like to forget that around Thanksgiving

I’m one of the “lucky” ones. I have my health, a happy marriage. I’m educated, employed with a nice roof over my head and far more than enough to eat at any time during the day or night.

Like many Northwesterners, I recently participated in the summer ritual of picking huckleberries. It is a last hurrah of the season, drawing us northward and upward, into the woods; or to a ditch on the side of the road.

I found myself standing in a line outside a department store at 4:30 a.m. on Black Friday.