An Other Kingdom: Departing the Consumer Culture AUTH-8975032 ISBN13: 9781461042242

ISBN13: 9781461042242

Author: Michelle Herman

He teaches at Sarah Lawrence College

This is a book to be savored and remembered

and a selection of notes and comments features historical references and credits

An Other Kingdom: Departing the Consumer Culture AUTH-8975032 ISBN13: 9781461042242Our seduction into beliefs in competition, scarcity, and acquisition are producing too many casualties. We need to depart a kingdom that creates isolation, polarized debate, an exhausted planet, and violence that comes with the will to empire. The abbreviation of this empire is called a consumer culture. We think the free market ideology that surrounds us is true and inevitable and represents progress. We are called to better adapt, be more agile,