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The Cult Of Amazon Prime

Posted at 10:37AM Thursday 19 Jan 2012

Prime is a cult you will be joining.

Like all great cults it's enormously uplifting to be a member, provided you're willing to throw away all free will and blindly accept the chosen one's world view.

Our leader is Bezos.

His, and our, worldview is that consumption is a tyrannical and meaningless chore, and that life begins after you give your consumption to a third party you can trust.

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