The backlash on the green trend has finally arrived, and the question now is if the current wave of environmentalism has staying power.
The genius of the tobacco companies has been to exploit not just the purchasing habits of the young and the addictive centers of their brains, but their dreams for a better life and their constant search through fantasy for meaning and identity.
Here is the full article from the current New York Review of Books, written by Helen Epstein, the daughter of Barbara Epstein, the NYRB editor who died of lung cancer last year. Barbara Epstein was also the editor of Anne Frank's Diary.
Disclosure: Whenever I see the word meaning, as Helen Epstein uses it, I think of Viktor Frankl. Frankl once proposed a Statue of Responsibility, a 300-foot stainless steel statue for the west coast to complement the Statue of Liberty on the east coast. The design seems somewhat uninspired. Maybe they should commission Maya Lin, designer of the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial in Washington, DC to come up with something. Not sure what Spiked would think of that . . .