2025 me here: The links in this post are broken. They were probably some images lifted from Adbusters. So much earnest idealism back then. 

Buy Nothing Day!

Look Honey, I bought something today!

Work Eat Buy Die

Just got up, my dream is still swirling. I have shimmering blue hair, a long glossy black coat overtop stylishly cut silver clothes. The city is layered with a heavy white layer of thick snow. Wide clustered snowflakes are detaching from the ground and drifting up towards the chilly grey sky. I stride towards the commercial district, jittery and nervous. I am to meet my project supervisor at a giant box store. Kata is a tall, slender Icelandic woman with bright blonde hair and a dark charismatic personality. In the store, cutting my eyes side to side, I take note of the obscenely overweight customers and their downcast eyes as they shuffle slowly and monotonously down the store aisles. They all are dressed in dull monochromatic sweatsuits, stretched tight over their adipose swollen flesh. In their arms, they all carry the same bland brown cube, forming long lines at each checkout lane. I am finding it hard to think. Suddenly I notice the subtle throbbing music. It is primal and invasive. Panic rising, I start to run, frantically looking for Kata. With relief I spot her working as a cashier. She gives me a wicked smile as I aggressively push my way through the sea of flesh. There are some mumbled protests that instantly die as I direct a fierce look their way. “Hello James, do you have my progress report?” Kata asks sarcastically. I tell her what she already knows, I haven’t even started and would like to see her bible of culture jamming for some ideas. Beside me, a consumer places her box on the counter and spreads out her hand palm up beside it. Kata presses a heavy metal phallic device onto the hand and the customer convulses and heaves, breathing heavy and ragged. Kata bags the brown box and I catch her slipping a red pill into the bag with a lightning quick movement. She checks my eyes to see if I caught it. The heavy woman moves past me with her bag and a sublime look on her face. Impressed with my perception, Kata gives me her book. I take it next to the exit to calm myself with the knowledge that I could quickly bolt out of the store. I can’t process the book, it is all sexually laced technobabble and scribbled disconnected thoughts. I sigh and resign myself to failing. I feel something cool pressing on the back of my neck.
My vision goes blue, unimaginable pleasure explodes in my brain. Every nerve in my body is roaring in incredible rapture. I open my eyes to find I am on my knees and breathing rapidly. I look up to see Kata with a wry grin on her face and the metal purchase device in one of her hands. “I thought that thing was just for the consumers” I pant. “Yeah but it looks like you needed it” she shoots back. I awoke and my bed was filled with silicon.

The more you consume, the less you live