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17 May 2023
Dear Former Human,
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Category Archives: Consumerism
In a World That Does Not Want To
It is not easy to do well
In a world that does not want to.
The Economic System We Have and the Amazing One I Want!
Here are four various economic systems, explained in brief fashion from my point of view.
Capitalism is where people swim at their own risk as they try to earn for themselves what they want—despite the fact that there’s always danger to the society from the powerful among the greedy and corrupt.
Continue reading The Economic System We Have and the Amazing One I Want!Corporate Love-Bombing
I have seen it so many times, this corporate love-bombing, by which a corporation starts out offering what is best for the customer, so as to lure them into doing business, and then compromises the goods or services to make the deal sweeter for the corporation—hoping either that the customer won’t notice, or won’t care enough to leave the relationship.
Continue reading Corporate Love-BombingThe State of the Art
The state of the art in technology
Has been improved since you started reading this,
While the state of the art in humanity
Has not been improved since the creation.
Modern Man Doesn’t Know How
The pendulum may continue to swing until
Modern man doesn’t know how to do anything anymore
Except to work a job to pay someone else to do everything for him—
Farming out nearly everything out until he has forgotten how to do anything for himself.
The Marketplace Wearies Me So
Who Loves Excellence the Most
Who loves excellence the most
Is not the consumer
Who spends only money,
But the artisan who spends himself
To make things just so.
Life Outside the Market
Let us all give thanks
For the Internet and email and text messages and TV and radio—
Those unassailable domains of the marketers,
Who, being the heirs apparent of all humanity,
Have brought our race finally to this glorious maturity,
Born again by way of the ever-gushing font of ads—
That life-giving stream, as from Eden itself—
Without which no one could ever know
What to think of himself
Or what he needs
Or how to find
His own way
To market!
My Constant Frustration
I live my life under the constant frustration that things of fundamental and preeminent importance must so frequently take a back seat to the practical business of being a worker/consumer cog in the prevailing economic machine. And the machine does not care one iota for grand ideas such as reality, authenticity, and self correction. Rather, it does considerable and deliberate work to the detriment of these principles.
Philosophy in general, and societal reform in particular, are not pursuits well suited for those who lack the means for leisure. This is because Continue reading My Constant Frustration