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Category Archives: Consumerism
Desperate Americans Who Can’t Afford Housing Are Becoming “Modern-Day Nomads” …But Not By Choice
By Robert Wheeler Source: The Organic Prepper A recent story floating around mainstream media regarding “modern-day nomads” reads like a contemporary article on Henry David Thoreau. It shares stories of people looking to downsize their life and live simply and … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, Consumerism, culture, Economics, Financial Crisis, Housing Crisis, Inequality, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology
Tagged Consumerism, coronavirus, Covid-19, culture, Downsizing, Economic Collapse, Economics, financial crisis, Housing Crisis, lockdown, minimalism, Nomads, Oligarchy, Poverty, society, The Great Reset, World Economic Forum
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Destroying The Web Of Life: The Destruction Of Earth’s Biodiversity Is Accelerating
By Robert J. Burrowes In August 2010, the secretary-general of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, Ahmed Djoghlaf, warned that ‘We are losing biodiversity at an unprecedented rate.’ According to the UN Environment Program, ‘the Earth is in the midst … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, Consumerism, Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Energy, Environment, Militarization, Philosophy, Science, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy, Technology, war
Tagged 5G, African lion, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Consumerism, Deforestation, Ecosystem, environment, Extinction, Fossil Fuels, IPBES, military spending, Sixth Extinction, war
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For Whom the Bell Tolls: A Report on the State of Planet Earth at Year’s End 2020
By Robert J. Burrowes In 1624, English poet John Donne penned his famous poem ‘No Man Is an Island’, sublimely evoking the reality of human unity: ‘Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind.’ Therefore, he concluded his poem, ‘never … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, Consumerism, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, education, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Health, Housing Crisis, Inequality, internet freedom, media, Militarization, military spending, news, Oligarchy, Philosophy, police state, Psychology, Social Control, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology, war
Tagged 2020, 5G, ABM treaty, activism, Big Tech, Bill Gates, Biodiversity, Climate Change, corporate media, Covid-19, DARPA, Deforestation, Dystopia, Economic Collapse, environment, Extinction, Factory Farms, Famine, financial crisis, Fossil Fuels, geoengineering, Global Elite, GMOs, Homelessness, International Atomic Energy Agency, James Corbett, Lockdowns, military spending, NATO, Nuclear Power, pollution, Privacy, SARS-CoV-2, sex trafficking, Slavery, surveillance state, Tax Havens, Technocracy, The Great Reset, Vaccines, Violence, war, World Economic Forum, World Health Organization
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Big Tech, Nostalgia, and Control: Grafton Tanner’s ‘The Circle of the Snake’
By Michael Grasso Source: We Are the Mutants The Circle of the Snake: Nostalgia and Utopia in the Age of Big Tech By Grafton Tanner Zero Books, 2020 I’m sure many members of Generation X have taken a moment to … Continue reading
Posted in Art, consciousness, Consumerism, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Financial Crisis, History, media, Media Literacy, Philosophy, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged Big Tech, Center for Humane Technology, Consumerism, culture, Dystopia, Economics, financial crisis, Google, Grafton Tanner, media, nostalgia, Philosophy, propaganda, Radical nostalgia, society, Technocracy, technology, The Circle of the Snake, Tristan Harris, Utopia
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Generation Numb: How Losing My Phone Exposed Me to the Pain of My Peers
This terrible void of which everyone stays pleasantly unobservant is the unofficial sickness of Gen Z. By Ben Scheer Source: ScheerPost I hadn’t planned to give up my smartphone. After all, I was starting my sophomore year of college and … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, consciousness, Consumerism, culture, Dystopia, education, media, Media Literacy, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged Alienation, Anxiety, Awareness, Consciousness, Consumerism, culture, Distraction, Dystopia, Education, Internet, media media literacy, Mindfulness, Philosophy, psychology, Smartphones, Social Media, society, Sociology, Technocracy, technology
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THE RISE OF THE CYBORGIAN CONSUMER
By Elva Thompson Source: Waking Times “You don’t take over the world with gaudy displays of violence. Real control is surgical, and invisible.” ~ John Greer – Person of Interest, Season 4, Episode: YHVH The Posthuman (or Transhuman) Movement was formally … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Consumerism, culture, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged apophasis, Chaos, Consumerism, Cybernetics, Cyborgs, Information, Nick Bostrom, Posthumanism, Stephen Brown, Technocracy, technology, Transhumanism
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The “New Normal” Is De-Normalization
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds Here’s what denormalization means: there was no “New Normal” for the dinosaurs. Everyone talks about the “New Normal,” as if there’s a guarantee that life will return to normal. But the “New Normal” is De-Normalization, which … Continue reading
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Tagged Consumerism, coronavirus, Covid-19, De-Normalization, economic crisis, Economics, Extinction, Financial Collapse, New Normal, Pandemic, Sports, travel
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Our Vanishing World: Oceans
By Robert J. Burrowes As the human onslaught against life on Earth accelerates, no part of the biosphere is left pristine. The simple act of consuming more than we actually need drives the world’s governments and corporations to endlessly destroy … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Consumerism, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Energy, Environment, Neoliberalism, Psychology, Science, society, State Crime
Tagged aquarium industry, Bilge water, Biosphere, Bottom trawling, Climate Change, Dead Zones, deep sea mining, Ecosystem, environment, Fukushima, Global Warming, Government, Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Invasive Species, nitrogen, noise pollution, Nonviolence, nuclear radiation, ocean acidity, Ocean deoxygenation, offshore oil drilling, oil spills, Overfishing, plastic pollution, sand dredging
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