(Added from the original text in March 22, 2006:
Music
iPods
Movies
Sports
Toys
Video Games
Buying something pretty doesn't make you any better.
Buying something pretty will not allow you to make any more.
It will just make you dependent on the people who make pretty things, because you'll grow accustomed to the pretty things.)
I don't get all these people who want new stuff all the time. Oh, new new new.
The newer the better. If it's "old" (has lasted 2-3 years, maybe a few months), oh, they MUST change it. It's imperative. They feel bad
using their "old" stuff... ashamed...
as if it were sinful or something... as if they couldn't just keep on using it.
I know... some things MUST be changed. And it depends on each person
and what he/she does. But when a person wants to buy new stuff just because... unnecessarily... it's disgusting! A clear motive for anger
and discontent. Why are people wasting so many things??? They've fallen to the idea of "disposable goods". So-called "American consumism". Do they think the whole Earth is disposable? Mindless, ignorant, weak-minded, willing slaves of commerce. They give up the whole effort of their lives to keeping up with the "demands of technological progress". Oh, and fashion, of course. "We can't live without it."
I think commercial advertising has done an excellent job on people. They truly believe it now. Natural, of course, since that advertising is now present in all the few free spaces left in our cities today. It is the stuffing of every single free timeblock on all radio, TV, and cable frequencies available. It crowds every street corner, every building, every once-unblocked view. It marks the boxes, jars, clothes, foods, cars... even living beings. This advertising is what we are forced to perceive every single time we interact with society. A psychological AND social threat. Some say it is an economic catalyzer, that it connects the producer and the consumer... though that's what it once was, I think it is now just a huge, distributed wastebasket for our work, and besides, it provides a complete, very deep, and mostly unconscious feeling of ruthless competition, everywhere we go.
This is said thinking about:
Music
iPods
Movies
Sports
Toys
Video Games
Buying something pretty doesn't make you any better.
Buying something pretty will not allow you to make any more.
It will just make you dependent on the people who make pretty things, because you'll grow accustomed to the pretty things.)
I don't get all these people who want new stuff all the time. Oh, new new new.
The newer the better. If it's "old" (has lasted 2-3 years, maybe a few months), oh, they MUST change it. It's imperative. They feel bad using their "old" stuff... ashamed... as if it were sinful or something... as if they couldn't just keep on using it. I know... some things MUST be changed. And it depends on each person
and what he/she does. But when a person wants to buy new stuff just because... unnecessarily... it's disgusting! A clear motive for anger and discontent. Why are people wasting so many things??? They've fallen to the idea of "disposable goods". So-called "American consumism". Do they think the whole Earth is disposable? Mindless, ignorant, weak-minded, willing slaves of commerce. They give up the whole effort of their lives to keeping up with the "demands of technological progress". Oh, and fashion, of course. "We can't live without it." I think commercial advertising has done an excellent job on people. They truly believe it now. Natural, of course, since that advertising is now present in all the few free spaces left in our cities today. It is the stuffing of every single free timeblock on all radio, TV, and cable frequencies available. It crowds every street corner, every building, every once-unblocked view. It marks the boxes, jars, clothes, foods, cars... even living beings. This advertising is what we are forced to perceive every single time we interact with society. A psychological AND social threat. Some say it is an economic catalyzer, that it connects the producer and the consumer... though that's what it once was, I think it is now just a huge, distributed wastebasket for our work, and besides, it provides a complete, very deep, and mostly unconscious feeling of ruthless competition,
everywhere we go.This is said thinking about:
- Cellphones
- Monitors
- Cars
- Clothes
- Perfumes
- TVs and other appliances
- Toys
- and stuff
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