3.5 — interesting, touches on a lot of really cool ideas and topics and things people are doing, but doesn’t imo get down to the core root of consumerism. i think so so much of consumerism-as-culture comes down to capitalist propaganda and it’s also very tied to anti-communist american values etc etc. i have so many thoughts on this that i wish this book had gotten closer to, but it felt very much like its imagination was stifled by capitalism, despite its gentle critiques of it.

another instance of “i’m just too radical to be impressed by this book” / “could’ve been more anti-capitalist” / “enjoyed but…..”

also, thumbs-down for multiple uncritical mentions of israel.