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Buy Nothingness Day
Adbusters’ Buy Nothing Day, the symbolic commercial day after thanksgiving, passed again in futility. There’s something sadly ironic about a bunch of socialist Canadian intellectuals trying to brand anti-ads to people immune to marketing, and wondering why no one listens. One day, when people study this civilization, the Wal-Mart clerk being trampled to death by shoppers will be read as an allegory of our deep social pathologies.
Not trying to get too existential on your ass, but we are somewhat fucked, so I am hereby launching HTMLGIANT’s Buy Nothingness Day, everyday for the next year. What better way to blend free-market ‘choice’ with the thick vacuum of ontological negation?
Come on people, jump in the Seine.
Tags: Adbusters, Being and nothingness, capitalism
being and nothingness is awesome.
i tried to read it once but i vomited half way through the first page.
i had to stop.
being and nothingness is awesome.
i tried to read it once but i vomited half way through the first page.
i had to stop.
reading it made me feel like Sisyphus, so i went back down the hill
reading it made me feel like Sisyphus, so i went back down the hill
jimmy chen you are the best.
jimmy chen you are the best.
i read some of that in college. i think i liked it. here’s a cool quote by somerset maugham:
If then one puts aside the existence of God and the possibility of survival as too doubtful to have any effect on one’s behaviour, one has to make up one’s mind what is the meaning and use of life. If death ends all, if I have neither to hope for good to come nor to fear evil, I must ask myself what I am here for and how in these circumstances I must conduct myself. Now the answer to one of these questions is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.
i’m planning on rereading the stranger -camus was another strange french dude- soon for this thing i’m working on…
i read some of that in college. i think i liked it. here’s a cool quote by somerset maugham:
If then one puts aside the existence of God and the possibility of survival as too doubtful to have any effect on one’s behaviour, one has to make up one’s mind what is the meaning and use of life. If death ends all, if I have neither to hope for good to come nor to fear evil, I must ask myself what I am here for and how in these circumstances I must conduct myself. Now the answer to one of these questions is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.
i’m planning on rereading the stranger -camus was another strange french dude- soon for this thing i’m working on…
The Stranger is one of my favorites.
Sartre is badass.
The Stranger is one of my favorites.
Sartre is badass.
Essays in Existentialism is thick but worth it.
Essays in Existentialism is thick but worth it.
re: camus – read the plague, amazingly awesome.
re: camus – read the plague, amazingly awesome.
i liked ‘the wall’ alot.
i liked ‘the wall’ alot.
liquidation rites is far and away his greatest
far and away
a masterpiece of understatement
a tour de force
one of the top 8 books according to the village voice’s gay pages
liquidation rites is far and away his greatest
far and away
a masterpiece of understatement
a tour de force
one of the top 8 books according to the village voice’s gay pages