'Joy is slavery. Fulfilment is death': Inside the thoughts of the Canadian plastic bag ban
, the National Post satirically re-imagines a week in the life of a newsmaker. This week, Tristin Hopper takes a journey inside the thoughts of the Canadian bag ban.I need not tell you we live in a time of crisis. Floods. Forest fires. Mass extinctions. And yet, there still exist self-absorbed narcissists who would callously ignore all these grim auguries merely in order to prioritize their own self-proclaimed right for a fleeting convenience.
Is this what made Canada great? Questioning the ultimate utility of a state-imposed consumer sacrifice? We’d all be speaking German if it had been up to you people.The mistake my critics make is to focus on the particulars. Sure, maybe we’re not actually saving all that many resources once you factor in the environmental impact of every Canadian now owning a closet full of unwanted tote bags. But what we’re doing here is engendering a cultural spirit of austerity.
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