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Category Archives: Consumerism
The Limited Mind: Why Fear is Driving Humanity to Extinction
By Robert J. Burrowes I have previously written many articles describing one or more aspects of the dysfunctional nature of the typical human mind, together with an explanation of how this came about and what we can do about it. … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, conditioning, Consumerism, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, education, Environment, Health, Oligarchy, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, war
Tagged Big Pharma, Consumerism, Education, Emotions, environment, Extinction, fear, Health, pharmaceutical industry, psychology, Socialization, Sustainability, Violence, war
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Jeff Bezos’s Corporate Takeover of Our Lives
How Amazon’s relentless pursuit of profit is squeezing us all—and what we can do about it By David Dayen Source: In These Times AMAZON IS AN ONLINE RETAILER. It also runs a marketplace for other online retailers. It’s also a shipper … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Labor, media, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, surveillance state, Technology, Work
Tagged AI, Alexa, Alienation, Amazon, big data, CIA, Cloud Computing, Corporate Lobbyists, Dystopia, e-commerce, Economics, financial crisis, Jeff Bezos, Labor, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Precariat, Retail Apocalypse, Small Business, Social Isolation, Technocracy, technology, Worker's Rights
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Zuck’s New Scam
Don’t buy into Facebook’s pivot to privacy By Lizzie O’Shea Source: The Baffler THE RHETORIC AT FACEBOOK—the largest social media platform in the world—is changing. In 2010, Mark Zuckerberg claimed that privacy was no longer a “social norm.” Today, the … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, internet freedom, media, Media Literacy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, surveillance state, Technology
Tagged Bernard Harcourt, big data, corporatocracy, culture, Data Mining, Dystopia, Economics, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Privacy, Shoshana Zuboff, Silicon Valley, Social Media, surveillance capitalism, Technocracy, technology
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HOW THE AMERICAN CULTURE OF CONVENIENCE IS KILLING US
By Daisy Luther Source: Waking Times In the United States, we are lucky to have massive convenience at our fingertips. I was talking to one of the instructors for the urban survival course, who is from Sweden, on a car … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, Consumerism, culture, Environment, GMOs, Health, society, Technology
Tagged Amazon, American Culture, Consumerism, Convenience, Corporations, Economics, Exercise, Food, Food System, GMOs, Health, Junk Food, obesity, Physical Fitness, Processed Foods, technology, USDA, Walking
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Saturday Matinee: Koyaanisqatsi
Young Life Out Of Balance: The Impact and Legacy of ‘Koyaanisqatsi’ By Michael Grasso Source: We Are the Mutants Throughout the latter half of the 1970s, ex-seminarian/political activist Godfrey Reggio and cinematographer Ron Fricke shot, assembled, and edited film footage … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Consumerism, culture, Environment, Film, media, Saturday Matinee, society, Spirituality, Technology, Video
Tagged Art Film, Cult film, culture, environment, Experimental Cinema, Godfrey Reggio, Koyaanisqatsi, Philip Glass, Qatsi trilogy, Ron Fricke, society, technology
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The Disintegrated Mind: The Greatest Threat to Human Survival on Earth
By Robert J. Burrowes Like many people who have struggled to understand why human beings are driving the sixth mass extinction event in Earth’s history, which now threatens imminent human extinction as well, over many decades I have explored the … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, conditioning, consciousness, Consumerism, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Economics, elites, Environment, Philosophy, Psy-ops, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality, State Crime
Tagged Behaviour, Cognitive Dissonance, conditioning, Consciousness, culture, Delusion, Denial, environment, Extinction, fear, Global Elite, lies, mental disintegration, Mind, Oligarchy, Philosophy, Plutocracy, Projection, psychology, Rationalization, Socialization, society, Sociology, The Earth Pledge
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Surgical Totalitarianism
By Dan Corjescu Source: Dissident Voice You don’t have to control everything to be in total control. In the modern world this seeming paradox is a systemic reality. In the past, classic totalitarian governments sought to literally control every aspect of … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Consumerism, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, imperialism, Philosophy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technology
Tagged Authoritarianism, Consumerism, Control, empire, Entertainment, geopolitics, Hierarchy, imperialism, social control, society, surveillance state, technology, Totalitarianism
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Degrowth: closing the global wealth divide
Contradicting the dominant paradigm that economic growth equals development, degrowth theorists argue that serious cutbacks are crucial to protect life on our planet. By Riccardo Mastini Source: ROAR Today, some 4.3 billion people — more than 60 percent of the … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Energy, Environment, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, Inequality, Neoliberalism, NGOs, Oligarchy, Privatization, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged capital flight, Climate Change, Colonialism, Consumerism, Consumption, Corporate Globalization, Degrowth, developing countries, Development, economic inequality, Economics, global development, Global Footprint Network, Global North, Global South, Globalization, Growth, Human Population, IMF, Jason Hickel, Multinational Corporations, Natural Resources, NGOs, Poverty, Progress, Sustainability, The Divide, The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and Its Solutions, Trade Agreements, trade misinvoicing, World Bank
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