Comments on: Sex And The City: A Portland View http://www.diamondcutlife.org/sex-and-the-city-a-portland-view/ Sustainable Living: More Joy And Less Consumption Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:10:11 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Colleen http://www.diamondcutlife.org/sex-and-the-city-a-portland-view/comment-page-1/#comment-198 Colleen Sun, 01 Jun 2008 17:47:14 +0000 http://www.diamondcutlife.org/?p=131#comment-198 Though the movie did touch on the importance of real, honest relationships, felt the movie had a major over-arching emphasis on expensive clothes, purses and jewelry (read: consumption). Like Alison, I like fun (and clothes) as much as anyone. And of course we all know the SATC lifetstyle is a fairy tale. But how and when did this kind of "we-too-can-live-in-a-fairy-tale" attitude seep into America's collective subconscious? Sadly, I think it happened long before SATC came on the airwaves as a TV show and now a movie. Only now are people starting to re-set their attitudes to more moderate and sustainable goals. If America is a dying empire, than the indulgent, over-consumptive SATC lifetyle is perhaps its swan song. Isn't it time the empire stopped dressing up all the time in new clothes? Though the movie did touch on the importance of real, honest relationships, felt the movie had a major over-arching emphasis on expensive clothes, purses and jewelry (read: consumption). Like Alison, I like fun (and clothes) as much as anyone. And of course we all know the SATC lifetstyle is a fairy tale.

But how and when did this kind of “we-too-can-live-in-a-fairy-tale” attitude seep into America’s collective subconscious? Sadly, I think it happened long before SATC came on the airwaves as a TV show and now a movie. Only now are people starting to re-set their attitudes to more moderate and sustainable goals.

If America is a dying empire, than the indulgent, over-consumptive SATC lifetyle is perhaps its swan song. Isn’t it time the empire stopped dressing up all the time in new clothes?

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