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Tag Archives: materialism
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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Conflict Theory and Biosphere Annihilation
By Robert J. Burrowes In a recent article titled ‘Challenges for Resolving Complex Conflicts’, I pointed out that existing conflict theory pays little attention to the extinction-causing conflict being ongoingly generated by human over-consumption in the finite planetary biosphere (and, … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, consciousness, Consumerism, Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, elites, Energy, Environment, Inequality, Militarization, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, war
Tagged Billionaires, Biosphere, capitalism, civilization, Climate Change, Conflict, Consumerism, Consumption, Corporations, Economics, elites, environment, Extinction, Governments, greed, materialism, Military, over-consumption, Philosophy, psychology, Sociology
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Smashing the Cult of Celebrity and the Disempowerment Game
By Dylan Charles Source: Waking Times At the dark heart of corporate consumer culture lie the social programs that mass-produce conformity, obedience, acquiescence and consent for the matrix. The cult of celebrity is the royal monarch of these schemes, the ace … Continue reading
Posted in Art, conditioning, consciousness, Consumerism, culture, media, Philosophy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality, Technology
Tagged Celebrity, Consciousness, Consumerism, Corporate Culture, Creativity, culture, hollywood, Marketing, materialism, media, mind control, Philosophy, social control, Social Media, spirituality, technology
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Seeking Happiness Beyond Neo-Liberal Consumerism
By Graham Peebles Source: Dissident Voice Irrespective of nationality, religion, race, or gender; whether stinking rich, desperately poor, or somewhere in between, happiness is the one thing everyone is seeking – consciously or not. The architects of the socio-economic system … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, consciousness, culture, Economics, Health, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality
Tagged addiction, conditioning, Conformity, Consumerism, corporatocracy, culture, Desire, Discontent, Dissatisfaction, Economics, happiness, materialism, Neoliberalism, Philosophy, Pleasure, psychology, Satisfaction, Self, society, Sociology, spirituality, Unhappiness
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What Science Isn’t
The Cult of Lay-Positivism By Equanimous Rex Source: Modern Mythology Science. Does the word bring images of space ships and high-tech equipment doing miraculous things? Wonder drugs and new solutions to old problems? Good, because this article isn’t a declaration … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, culture, Philosophy, Science, society, Sociology, Spirituality, Technology
Tagged Atheism, materialism, Materialist Positivists, Philosophy, Positivsm, Religion, science, Skeptic, Spitituality
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Escaping the iron cage of hopelessness
By Edward Curtin Source: Intrepid Report “Specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart; this nullity imagines that it has attained a level of civilization never before achieved”—Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism “In this frightful round of … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, consciousness, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Philosophy, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality, Technology
Tagged Conscious Evolution, culture, Economics, materialism, Philosophy, Relativism, Religion, science, Scientism, society, spirituality, technology
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The Santa Claus Syndrome
By Ethan Indigo Smith Source: ZenGardner.com The Santa Clause: Lying is OK, so long as everyone else is doing it. The Santa Claus Syndrome is the effect of societal complicity in, and/or complacency to, lies and the belief that’s ok. … Continue reading
The Reason You Work So Hard to Participate in the Rat Race
By M.J. Higby Source: Waking Times Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “A man in debt is so far a slave.” Money has no intrinsic value yet we spend our days damaging our health and spirit in order to obtain it. Why do … Continue reading
Posted in Art, conditioning, consciousness, Consumerism, Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Health, Labor, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Control, society, Sociology, Spirituality, Work
Tagged Advertising, capitalism, Consumerism, Debt, Economics, Health, Labor, Marketing, materialism, Money, Productivity, Rat Race, society, Stress, Time, Wealth, Work
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