Shopping Cart Religion

Shopping Cart Religion

Happiness and fulfillment await you on the other side of your purchase. Add this shiny new object to your shopping cart now and receive your eternal reward. Anticipation of the object’s arrival will give you days of purpose and meaning. Soon you will have the object in your hands, waiting for unboxing. Paradise lies on the other side of the Amazon wrapper; salvation awaits just beneath the cardboard packaging. Once opened, you will become a member of a community of other like-minded consumers. Fellow faceless consumers alone in their rooms, the holy glow of computer screen light illuminating their sullen faces. Alone, empty, wanting…