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Agustin Schapira's avatar

A general comment, Andrew --just to let you know how much I enjoy your Two Things. It is the highlight of my morning Inbox, the newsletter that I appreciate the most among the many I am subscribed to. I appreciate the topics, the concern for the future, the mix of worry and optimism, and the depth at which you engage with the subjects (deep, ma non troppo). I hope you keep on doing this!

And today I particularly enjoyed your review of Kate Soper's book. I think there's a lot that matters there, in that search for an alternative form of hedonism.

Thank you.

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Dougald Hine's avatar

Good to read your take on Soper's book, Andrew. If you've not seen it already, you might find John Foster's review essay on this and Giorgos Kallis's Limits an interesting read:

https://www.greenhousethinktank.org/rethinking-consumerism/

I'm not convinced by the "therapeutic vanguard" idea, but I do think the lens of addiction brings something important to making sense of consumerism and the trouble we're in.

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