More or Less Capitalism or How I Embrace Challenging the Promise of Consumer Culture
Take a step back, and drink in the landscape of a free market saturated with social media influencers and repackaged cable television fueled by artificial intelligence bots and empty promises of an American Deam. Take it in North America. Warmly embrace our world dominated by the relentless pursuit of more—more wealth, more consumption, more productivity and somehow also packaging a selling the idea of less as a romantic, quaint notion that also leads to us buying more, just in a different way. We find ourselves running on this hamster wheel, caught in this narrative that celebrates growth at all costs, human costs, the cost of humanity. Capitalism, we love it, we make movies about it, we write books about it. I mean that in a very real way when you take a look at the latest (and I mean latest by the last 40 years) blockbuster hits and New York Times best-sellers. It is the engine of progress. It presents itself as a promise of infinite abundance. It's the Fountainhead embodied as