Consumerism Stories

The city of the future is not built. It is manufactured. It does not cater to the needs of its people, but people's needs are catered to it. s

Kath Davies' embarks on a journey of financial hardship and with that critiques the malevolent force of capitalism.

The origin of a certain consumerist holiday in an alternate reality. Inspired by this Reddit writing prompt: https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/7ghu9e/wp_once_every_year_ebay_sellers_don_masks_and/

A live story of our family's round the world trip. Diced with musings on plastic society, being father, a husband, and a business owner.

Portland, Oregon has evolved into a where brand involvement equivocates to success. Ivy Korber has been preparing for Designation Day since the day she laid eyes on selected women from the prestigious fashion line, Lucci. Sharply making the age deadline, her future is set when she is initiated as one of Lucci's own poster girls. Things quickly start to lose their luster, though, when she crosses paths with clipped and direct Lucci executive-in-training, Kye. It appears Kye knows more than he is letting on, but with uprising attacks across the country by the notorious rebel group, Nominum, hitting closer to home than originally anticipated, the two seem to be the only ones acknowledging the threat. Working through clashing conflicts of interest, Kye and Ivy must join forces to protect their home in Portland and their own livelihoods, tiptoeing on the verge of much more sinister plots than Nominum's haven raids.

Corporations know more about you - than you do. For Mitch Todson, buying a product at the Buy-and-Have on the way home from work results in a knock at his door he never expected. Is this short dystopian tale consumers are the products and corporations manipulate you through unimaginable ways.

Do you ever check what's in the food and drink that's in your body? Or just what's cheap and convenient This is not intended to defame any retail companies or soda/energy drink companies as I am a huge fan and drinker of Monster Energy. As usual, don't sue me.

~ Some days, no matter how I stop up my ears, I still hear the bell's knell... ~ This book of poetry explores and exposes my personal struggle, as I witness an entire society turn its back to avoid seeing how its behaviour impacts our fragile, beleaguered Earth. As unspeakably destructive consumerism lays waste to much of the planet's biosphere, humans are (ever so) slowly waking up to the harm and true cost of our way of life. We see yet refuse to see at the same time. We are loath to give up our creature comforts, our toe-hold in the climb for status, our relative sense of security, even though Life on the planet is threatened with irreversible harm, perhaps even annihilation. We've forgotten where we come from and no longer question the lie passed down to us from generation to generation. That we deserve to live like royalty at the expense of all other forms of life. That we are the ultimate Masters of the World. Holding on to this conviction, despite what we know in our hearts and minds, will soon send us spiralling into a chain reaction of disasters. As chaos overtakes our planet, we will rue the day we turned our backs and simply let it happen. What will we tell our children and grandchildren? Read at your own risk!!

It's a short story about life and it's cycle. Every living things depends on someone else for food and nutrition to survive. Whether it is humans or someone else. Do you think we will ever be able to escape this cycle? Do we really need to escape this cycle? Or can we just accept the way it is?

An endless parade of living vibrant choices in motion present themselves before your immobile enthroned form to symbolically "fight" to entice you to give them your "favor", your "approval", your "purchase". That sort of thing.

A short essay about a town where I landed and now inhabit.

Most of these date from when I was writing for a student newspaper. I don;t think any of these got printed and certainly I did not get paid (as you don't) so I still own them either way. Most are a few years old but may contain some humour.

It's amazing what fresh air, nature's beauty, and a starry sky can do to clear the cobwebs from one's mind. It has been years since I saw the Milky Way, and even longer since I canoed in northern Ontario. One week of wilderness camping in Georgian Bay is sufficient to set me off on a mission to save mother earth. It's as if nature and the universe conspired to spur me into action. But save it from what?

read the shit & open your third eye.