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Category Archives: Consumerism
Pop Culture Has Become an Oligopoly
By Adam Mastroianni Source: Experimental History You may have noticed that every popular movie these days is a remake, reboot, sequel, spinoff, or cinematic universe expansion. In 2021, only one of the ten top-grossing films––the Ryan Reynolds vehicle Free Guy––was an … Continue reading
Posted in Art, consciousness, Consumerism, culture, Economics, Film, media, Media Literacy, society, Sociology, Technology
Tagged Art, Corporate Consolidation, corporate media, culture, Economics, film, liturature, Mass Media, media, Media Literacy, music, oligopoly, Pop Culture, proliferation, Reboots, Remakes, Sequels, society, Sociology, spinoffs, Television, Video Games
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How Empires Die
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds From a systems perspective, nation-states and empires arise when they are superior solutions to security compared to whatever arrangement they replace: feudalism, warlords, tribal confederations, etc. States and empires fail when they are … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy
Tagged crapification, Economic Collapse, Economics, elites, empire, fairness, financial crisis, Government, imperialism, Middle Class, Planned obsolescence, Security
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Can a Nation Prosper as its Institutions Fail?
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds Economists focus on what can be easily measured: sales, profits, prices, tax revenues, etc. Since the decay and failure of institutions isn’t easily quantified, this decay doesn’t register in the realm of economics. Since it … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, education, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Health, Inequality, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged central banks, Consumerism, economic bubbles, Economic Collapse, Economics, Education, financial crisis, Financialization, Health Care, Oligarchy, Samo Burja, society, Why Civilizations Collapse
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The U.S. Economy In a Nutshell: When Critical Parts Are On “Indefinite Back Order,” the Machine Grinds to a Halt
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds Setting aside the “transitory inflation” parlor game for a moment, let’s look at what happens when critical parts are unavailable for whatever reason, for example, they’re on back order or indefinite back order, i.e. the … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Labor, Neoliberalism, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Work
Tagged Corporate Globalization, culture, Economic Collapse, Economics, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Inflation, Labor, Neoliberalism, scarcities, shortages, society, supply chains, Systemic Collapse, Work
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Amazon, “Economic Terrorism” and the Destruction of Competition and Livelihoods
By Colin Todhunter Source: Off-Guardian Global corporations are colonising India’s retail space through e-commerce and destroying small-scale physical retail and millions of livelihoods. Walmart entered into India in 2016 with a US$3.3 billion take-over of the online retail start-up Jet.com. This … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Technocracy
Tagged #WealthTaxNow, Amazon, Amazon.com, Business, Colin Todhunter, Corruption, economic inequality, Economics, financial crisis, India, JACAFRE, Jeff Bezos, Joint Action Committee against Foreign Retail and E-commerce, Monopolies, Narendra Modi, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Poverty, Technocracy, Walmart
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COMMUNITY VERSUS COMMODITY: THE HIDDEN BATTLE THAT AFFECTS US ALL
By Gary Z McGee Source: Waking Times “We abuse the land because we see it as a commodity belonging to is. When we see the land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, consciousness, Consumerism, Corporate Crime, culture, Environment, Health, Oligarchy, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality, Technocracy
Tagged commodity, Community, conditioning, Consciousness, corporatocracy, culture, environment, Health, Krishnamurti, Philosophy, psychology, society, Sociology, spirituality
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The Accelerating Destruction Of Earth’s Biodiversity: When Will We Act?
By Robert J. Burrowes As those individuals aware of it will have observed, presumably with deep regret, the latest ‘International Day for Biological Diversity’passed on 22 May with the bulk of the human population continuing to act in ways that destroy … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, Consumerism, Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Environment, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technocracy
Tagged 5G, Biodiversity, Biosphere, Climate Change, Consumerism, Deforestation, electrosmog, environment, Extinction, Fracking, poaching, pollution, Resource depletion, Technocracy, trophy hunting
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THE HARMONY OF NONCONFORMITY
By Jason Gregory Source: Waking Times In a linear world, the external order dictates an artificial way of life to the individual, creating a conformist society and forcing us to relinquish our power to a machine that is unnatural and … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, conditioning, consciousness, Consumerism, culture, Philosophy, Psychology, society, Sociology, Spirituality
Tagged caste system, Christianity, conditioning, Conformity, Consciousness, culture, Hinduism, Lao-tzu, Philosophy, society, Sociology, spirituality, Taoism
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Desultory Heroics 