Today we live in a society that seems to be less and less concerned with reality. We drink instant coffee and reconstituted orange juice. We buy our vegetables on cardboard trays covered with plastic. But perhaps the most dehumanizing thing of all is that we have allowed the media to call us consumers–ugly. No! I don’t want to be a consumer. Anger consumes. Forest fires consume. Cancer consumes.

Today we live in a society that seems to be less and less concerned with reality. We drink instant coffee and reconstituted orange juice. We buy our vegetables on cardboard trays covered with plastic. But perhaps the most dehumanizing thing of all is that we have allowed the media to call us consumers–ugly. No! I don’t want to be a consumer. Anger consumes. Forest fires consume. Cancer consumes.

– Madeleine L’Engle –

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