You may think of today as Black Friday - a day to shop until you drop - but a number of Utahns are celebrating Buy Nothing Day. The folks at Adbusters Media Foundation coined the term to raise awareness of the financial and environmental excesses surrounding the holidays. The group says this year, perhaps more than any other, the day is especially relevant.
“If you dig a little past the surface you’ll see that this financial meltdown is not about liquidity, toxic derivatives or unregulated markets, it’s really about culture,” said Adbusters Media Foundation co-founder Kalle Lasn in a statement. “It’s our culture of excess and meaningless consumption — the glorified spending and borrowing of the past decade that’s at the root of the crisis we now find ourselves in.”