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Category Archives: Consumerism
American Society Would Collapse If It Weren’t for These 8 Myths
By Lee Camp Source: TruthDig Our society should’ve collapsed by now. You know that, right? No society should function with this level of inequality (with the possible exception of one of those prison planets in a “Star Wars” movie). Sixty-three … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, consciousness, Consumerism, corporate news, culture, Economics, Election Fraud, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Labor, Law, media, Media Literacy, news, police state, propaganda, Social Control, society, Work
Tagged american myths, Big Banks, Big Oil, Big Pharma, Consumerism, corporate media, Democracy, economic inequality, Electoral System, elites, independent judiciary, Jobs, judiciary, Labor, Lee Camp, media, Oligarchy, police, police state, us democracy, Work
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4 SIGNS WE LIVE IN A PROFOUNDLY SICK SOCIETY
By Gary Z McGee Source: Waking Times “It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” ~Jiddu Krishnamurti What makes our society so sick? How do we know for sure that our society is … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, Consumerism, Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Environment, GMOs, Health, Philosophy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Uncategorized
Tagged Air Pollution, culture, Dow Chemical, environment, Fossil Fuels, GMOs, Health, Industrial Foods, Keystone Pipeline, Monsanto, pollution, society, Water pollution
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Five Ways to Curb the Power of Corporations and Billionaires
By Jeremy Lent Source: Patterns of Meaning We need to rein in the destructive power of corporations and billionaires before it’s too late. These five ideas would do that, while leaving global capitalism intact. Ultimately, only a complete transformation of our … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, elites, Environment, Financial Crisis, Neoliberalism, Social Control, society, Sociology
Tagged 1%, Asset Caps, Billionaires, capitalism, Charter Renewal, Corporate Charters, Corporate Crime, Corporate Globalization, Corporations, corporatocracy, Ecocide, Economics, elites, environment, Natural Resources, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Overconsumption, Plutocracy, Species Extinction, Trade Tax
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Orwell knew: we willingly buy the screens that are used against us
By Henry Cowles Source: Aeon Sales of George Orwell’s utopian novel 1984 (1949) have spiked twice recently, both times in response to political events. In early 2017, the idea of ‘alternative facts’ called to mind Winston Smith, the book’s protagonist and, … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, civil liberties, conditioning, consciousness, Consumerism, culture, Dystopia, internet freedom, media, police state, Psychology, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, surveillance state, Technology
Tagged 1984, Authoritarianism, Consumerism, culture, Dystopia, George Orwell, police state, Sarah Igo, Smartphones, Social Media, Sociology, Sophia Rosenfeld, surveillance state, technology, Telescreens, TV
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OUR NEW, HAPPY LIFE? THE IDEOLOGY OF DEVELOPMENT
By Charles Eisenstein Source: Waking Times In George Orwell’s 1984, there is a moment when the Party announces an “increase” in the chocolate ration – from thirty grams to twenty. No one except for the protagonist, Winston, seems to notice that … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, Consumerism, culture, Dystopia, Economics, education, Environment, Health, imperialism, Neoliberalism, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality, Technology
Tagged 1984, Agriculture, Developing Nations, Dystopia, Economics, empathy, George Orwell, Global South, happiness, Health Care, Humanity, Literacy, Nicholas Kristof, Progress, science, Sick Care, Statistics, Stephen Pinker, technology, Third World
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Strategy and Conscience: Subverting Elite Power So We End Human Violence
By Robert J. Burrowes Given the overwhelming evidence that activist efforts are failing to halt the accelerating rush to extinction precipitated and maintained by dysfunctional human behavior, it is worth reflecting on why this is happening. Of course, you might … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anti-war, Authoritarianism, black ops, consciousness, Consumerism, Corporate Crime, culture, Deep State, Economics, elites, Empire, Environment, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, imperialism, Philosophy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, war
Tagged activism, Climate Change, Consumerism, Corporate Globalization, corporatocracy, elites, environment, Fossil Fuels, Gandhi, geopolitics, Global Elites, Helsinki, NATO, NGOs, Non-Violence, Nuclear War, Peace, Progress, Putin, Social Progress, society, Trump, Violence, war
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Unsouling From the Wilderness
By Kingsley L. Dennis Source: Waking Times “Crazy Horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirits of all things. That is the real world that is behind this one, and everything we see here is … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, consciousness, Consumerism, culture, education, Environment, Health, media, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality
Tagged Black Elk, Consciousness, Consumerism, culture, Education, Fast Food, Hyperreality, industrial society, Jorge Luis Borges, materialism, Meaning, media, modernity, nature, Philosophy, psychology, society, Sociology, Soul, spirituality, technology, wilderness
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Slow suicide and the abandonment of the world
By Edward Curtin Source: Intrepid Report “The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one’s mind, is the condition of the normal man. Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Art, consciousness, Consumerism, culture, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality
Tagged activism, Alienation, Conformity, Consumerism, culture, Death, depression, Experience, fear, Life, Philosophy, psychology, Rebellion, Slow Suicide, society, Sociology, suicide
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