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The Gospel of Consumption [2008]
- mitya777 13y agoWe are being farmed. We are given toys and distractions, in exchange we give up our time and consciousness to be propagandized to be a certain way and to buy certain things. It's a system whose lifeblood is money around which our entire society is incentivized at the expense of happiness, human connection, and intellectual honesty. I use to think that these are just symptoms of a system necessary for the sustenance of our fragile civilization. That we are victims of deprecated ideals, and that we will learn new ones and eventually correct course. Now I understand that a minority of people in the world cynically manipulate the vast majority for their own personal gain, and until we realize this and organize we will never reach our human potential.