{"id":5644,"date":"2008-04-08T15:48:35","date_gmt":"2008-04-08T15:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/?p=5644"},"modified":"2010-05-27T13:21:12","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T20:21:12","slug":"david-report-bulletin-i-shop-therefore-i-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/read\/books\/david-report-bulletin-i-shop-therefore-i-am\/","title":{"rendered":"David Report bulletin: &#8220;I shop therefore I am&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just finished looking through the new <a href=\"http:\/\/davidreport.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">David Report<\/a> bulletin called<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/davidreport.com\/the-report\/issue-9-2008-i-shop-therefore-i\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">&#8220;I shop therefore I am&#8221;<\/a> and I highly recommend taking a few moments to read through it. It might just make you a little more aware of your responsibilities as a consumer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Shopping has turned into a lifestyle. We consume as leisure and a way to pass time. But at the same time many are realizing that the power of consumption is stopping us from finding true and sincere happiness; and that shopping often works as a substitute for something that we\u00c2\u00b4re missing in life. At what point does the accumulation of material goods become less fulfilling and more stressful and overwhelming&#8230;<br \/>\nOur consumption grows in the same pace as our economic growth. Studies shows that in hundred years we consume eight times as much per capita as today. Can our globe take such a strain? The power of consumption is being questioned and there\u00c2\u00b4s a change in attitude and way of life. We don\u00c2\u00b4t want to be consuming goofs, we want to be considered aware and responsible. It is all about WHAT we buy and WHAT we choose to invest in, the world we live in will be the result of those choices.&#8221;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just finished looking through the new David Report bulletin called &#8220;I shop therefore I am&#8221; and I highly recommend taking a few moments to read through it. It might just make you a little more aware of your responsibilities as a consumer. &#8220;Shopping has turned into a lifestyle. We consume as leisure and a [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[240,242,241],"tags":[233],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5644"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5644"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15944,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5644\/revisions\/15944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}