Angst on the Skytrain

This is Vancouver’s Skytrain. Now that it has been expanded (the Vancouver 2010 Olympic effect), it’s a useful addition to the city’s public transit services. Riding the Skytrain to Union Station in Vancouver this July, we switched lines at the main interchange station, Waterfront, and spotted these posters, an outpouring of existential angst about consumer society - surely the work of Adbusters or someone similar? Most commuters paid them no attention, and I’m wondering if they are still there - can’t imagine they’d last too long on London Underground. In case you can’t read the straplines, here they are:

Acquire: A brand new personality and join the miserables

 

Consume: With pleasure until you are infected and rotted inside

Conform: Now and freely accept a perpetual chronic disease

Invest: In your lonely future and suffer if it’s sold out