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“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”

For the last few years I have been inspired by the ideas of a little known magazine and movement called ADBUSTERS which is designed to make you think about the consumer culture you and I live in.

Adbusters Media Foundation is an anti consumerist organisation founded in 1989. They describe themselves as "a global network of artists, activists, writers, pranksters, students, educators and entrepreneurs who want to advance the new social activist movement of the information age."

ADBUSTERS is not a faith based magazine nor do I always agree with it but I dare you to read it under the influence of Romans 12:2 "Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind."

Here are some of the things that ADBUSTERS promote:

BUY NOTHING DAY

"As the planet starts heating up, maybe it’s time to finally go cold turkey. Take the personal challenge by locking up your debit card, your credit cards, your money clip, and see what it feels like to opt out of consumer culture completely, even if only for 24 hours. Like the millions of people who have done this fast before you, you may be rewarded with a life-changing epiphany."

MENTAL DETOX WEEK

"The idea is simple: take your TV, your DVD player, your video iPod, your XBOX 360, your laptop, your PSP, and say goodbye to them all for seven days. Simple, but not at all easy. Like millions of others before you, you’ll be shocked at just how difficult - yet also how life-changing - a week spent unplugged can really be."

• Check out their spoof advertisements which look at some of the true effects of advertising here
• Sign up for their view on how information should flow in the modern media world here
• Check out their alternative anti-fashion trainers made from organic fair trade materials here

You can usually find a copy of the Adbusters Magazine in Borders. You can't read it without being challenged...