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kittystache

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"Are we Suffering from Consumption?" BBC Consumerism Post
« on: August 18, 2014, 08:54:06 AM »
Truly mustachian.....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-28756372

I'm suffering from a paradoxical condition. Unlike the wilting heroines and tissue-white heroes of Victorian literature, I'm not dying of consumption, but, on the contrary, if all the authorities are to be believed, it's the only thing keeping me alive.

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Re: "Are we Suffering from Consumption?" BBC Consumerism Post
« Reply #1 on: August 18, 2014, 09:32:48 AM »
Quite enjoyable! Thanks for sharing.

Chranstronaut

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Re: "Are we Suffering from Consumption?" BBC Consumerism Post
« Reply #2 on: August 18, 2014, 10:16:39 AM »
"And as we cough and splutter the news of our latest acquisitions, so it occurs to me that unless we can find a cure for this malady soon it will have eaten us all up, just as we will have consumed all of Mother Earth's bountiful resources."

Great read. 
In the end, Mother Earth receives us all; how and when are up to us.

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Re: "Are we Suffering from Consumption?" BBC Consumerism Post
« Reply #3 on: August 21, 2014, 07:48:25 PM »
Cool article.  Thanks for sharing.