"What Would Jesus Buy?"
Rev. Billy seems a bit weird at first, but the movie is definitely worth watching. The random commercials are just kind of surreal when you think about it. The movie's by Morgan Spurlock, the guy who did "SuperSize Me." The moral of the story is no less apparent, although it's not as shocking as SSM.
From an email I sent Dargon:
"By anti-consumerist, I'm not saying everyone has to purge their possessions down to what they can fit in a 130 square foot Home That Is Mobile. But I am saying that owning five Rolexes or seven Gucci bags when you don't ever use them is just stupid. If you wear a watch, and you want to spend a lot of money on one, that's fine. But buy one, and use the fuck out of it. Don't buy five and let them collect dust. N. has a damn sixty dollar purse she bought because "it's so cute!" but she never uses it. "I don't have anything that matches it!" Well, she shouldn't have bought it then.
"Pimping one's computer isn't excessive. You use it. Fuck, if I had the money, mine would be pimped out, too. We play video games, we need nice(r) computers. But having the best computer on the damn block is stupid if you only use it to browse Myspace. Most people would find the amount I spend on cat food excessive. Yes, I could very well feed them Meow Mix and they would be happy. But I prefer to spend the extra money on a better food sourced in the US and sold by an independent retailer. And while it's expensive, I'm not paying for a label. The ingredients are quality. I'm not paying a premium for a corn-based pet food (*coughcough*Eukanuba*coughcough*Science
"My anti-consumerist rally is against people like the woman shown in the movie. Bought her kids not one, not two, but THREE fucking my-size Hummers. She buys them brand-name clothing. They'll grow out of the clothing in six months, and in a few hours they'll be playing with the box those my-size Hummers came in. Instead of actually taking care of her kids, instead of giving them what they need, instead of *loving* and *enjoying* her children, she throws money at them. Like a person who gets a dog, buys it the most expensive of everything, but doesn't play with it and doesn't interact with it. This is why I don't need a dog. I like the idea of a dog. I don't necessarily like the reality of a dog. Unless it happens to be a very certain Pomeranian. But that's not a dog, that's my niece.
"If you spend money on something, you'd better damn well love it and enjoy it and get some use out of it, no matter how much you paid for it. That's pretty much what it boils down to."
