What Would Jesus Buy?
A new film coming up by Supersize Me's Morgan Spurlock:
The film features "Reverend BIlly," a minister of anti-consumerism created by Spurlock.
It's interesting to me that the most effective messengers of humanism and consumer advocacy these days are satirical characters. I've seen guys like Stephen Colbert do more good as artificial humans than real consumer advocates have done the last fifteen years.
I think that ties into my belief that consumer advocacy is undergoing a necessary radicalization in order to counter-balance corporate disinformation efforts. Were I an academic paid to pontificate I might expand painfully on this opinion ad nauseum.
However, given it's Friday and I'm just a blogger trying to make a measly living, I think I'll go have a Wolaver's IPA.
They're a Vermont brewer my girlfriend and I have fallen in love with.
Some tasty business, if you sinners are into that sort of thing.