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Excerpts from “In Search of Consumptive Resistance: The Voluntary Simplicity Movement”
2017
Overview
It’s quiet, countercultural, potentially subversive, but also mainstream. It flies low, usually hidden amidst reports of increasing productivity, rising consumer confidence, expanding personal debt, and the dizzying array of new products promising to make life easier, faster, more productive, and more rewarding. Unpromisingly rooted in an apolitical and consumerist response to social ills, it also sows the seeds of collective challenge to fundamental dysfunctions of industrial society. Focused as it is on the quality of work and quest for personal control of one’s time and one’s life, it resonates with the American deification of individual freedom. But inevitable connections to
