Re the riots: if you promote a cult of designer brands and an ethos of shop-till-you-drop to the exclusion of notions of work, good making and artistic expression you will die by them. The looters have no idea where this stuff comes from – they don’t see it as something to be invented, designed and made, it just flies in by ju-ju magic. The fact that the warehouse they burnt down in Enfield was Sony’s sole distribution point for the UK would be unknown to them. They know nothing of the world that builds and makes and sustains us. They would trash the entire world if they could and then sit there with a begging bowl saying that someone must feed them.
Just as the US promoted globalization in its own selfish interest and has been bankrupted by it, crass consumerism has created a monster that is devouring it.
Just as the US promoted globalization in its own selfish interest and has been bankrupted by it, crass consumerism has created a monster that is devouring it.
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