Proponents of
voluntary simplicity, critics of excessive consumption, localists,
sustainability advocates, and other mild-mannered critics of
consumer culture have a lot to brag on these days, writes
Contributing Editor Tim Cavanaugh. They have stooped for years
under the tyranny of big-box retailers, SUVs, wall-sized
televisions, crap culture, gourmet coffees, and self-storage
facilities. If there's a silver lining in the clouds over the
global economy, these are the folks you'd expect to find it.
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