Day 146: Consumer Culture These Days

2026-07-02Hello!I'm writing this after watching Kimberly Clark's fight against excessive consumer culture. She produced a guide to stop shopping addiction — with a theme song! This five-video long series on overconsumption is amazing. From the start, it's clear how much her emphasis is on the individual and how we as a collective outnumber the corporations at the top.I also wonder about how this knowledge gets passed. I hope I'm doing my part to spread good vibes and community among ordinary people, but the cards are stacked against us. I didn't get this from an algorithm.I bet few people have — these videos of Kimberly's don't have many views. This knowledge is the type to slip through the cracks of education and even life experience. Still, we must take active effort to push against the entropy.Hell, I remember learning and talking about this in elementary school, with specific regard to advertisements. My third grade teacher told us about advertiser strategies and had us identify…