Title: Progress is not a bad thing.
Product review: With all the pining for the limited technology/luxuries of past eras in this book, i suspect there might be a general issue with progress as well as the overconsumption of expensive gew-gaws. So i have mixed feelings...this book echos some of my already set sentiments about modern spending habits and classism. Overall, the book has a good message that could really do people some good. It comes from a good place and i see what the authors are trying to accomplish.... but i found the tone, slight paranoia and misplaced nostalgia to be a bit of a turn off. I was hoping to come away with a renewed, positive urge to carefully choose what i buy but instead began to resent being painted as a stupid, miserable, empty, American cubicle slave that hates their job and exists only to consume and defecate plastic flotsam all over my environment.
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