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Oh boyFrom: Steven
Subject: General
Date/Time 2007-11-17 00:32:31
Remote IP: 69.208.241.42
Message>>-Also one of the funniest lines is in this show.
>>
>>"Strasser: One of the rabbis -- the Cincinnati rabbi
>>-- famously said that the Hebrew race had been waiting
>>4,000 years for Crisco."
>>I always new they where waiting for cris.
Yeah, but your comment was even funnier! LOL Dog
>>Crisco's crowning achievement was creating demand
>>for something nobody knew they wanted. That's the
>>cornerstone of the consumer economy, after all.
This sentence quite possibly sums up my distaste
for consumerism in better words than I could have possibly said.
I mean, let's just orient our whole society toward convincing
people to buy junk they don't need.
In buying more and more and more, we lose sight of
ourselves in the process. More and more of our time
becomes occupied with trying to get more of this
junk, wishing we had certain things, maintaining
the stuff that we have, occupying our time in dealing
with the junk we've accumulated. We then devote a lot
of time to mindlessly working so we can get enough money
to buy even more.
It's almost a zombie mentality. We distract ourselves
from ourselves by investing ourselves in this stuff.
It creates an empty hole within. Then the only
way we feel better is to buy more--just like a zombie
can only feel better when they "eeatt mooore braaainns!"
The more we acquire the further away from ourselves we
become . . .
Well, anyway, I think you get how much I hate it.
Even the word itself, "consumer", reflects just
exactly what it is. You consume. Like a vampire,
you try to draw in energy from all of these outside
sources of more emptiness.
It really makes me feel like we'd be better off
in a lot of ways if we just rejected a lot of
this and returned to a simpler more deliberate way of living.
At the very least, we probably wouldn't need to
live workaholic lifestyles acquiring enough money
to fuel our buying addiction. Then more people
could find true happiness within, rather than
fake happiness without.
S
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