Consumer culture promises us that we can buy our way out of pain -- that the reason we're sad and angry is not that being human hurts; it's because we don't have those countertops, her thighs, these jeans. This is a clever way to run an economy, but it is no way to run a life. Consuming keeps us distracted, busy, and numb. Numbness keeps us from becoming.
-- Glennon Doyle, Untamed, p. 51
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