the consumer society [Theme]



Most people equate happiness with the possession of property, turning it into a synonym for pleasure. There is no doubt that the world is obsessed with consumerism and people take pleasure in the very act of buying things, thinking that it brings them happiness. The highest achievement of the consumer market is the creation of an international community of identical consumers, devoid of will and the ability to think, who, like drug addicts who need the next dose to continue the illusion of happiness, are ready to distort and adapt moral standards to themselves in order to achieve their goal.
№ 464974   Added MegaMozg 20-03-2024 / 03:42
Modern television is perhaps much more powerful than the Soviet experiments to create invincible and fearless soldiers, while modern media has created a huge crowd of obedient consumers, equalizing all people in the world through the consumption of the same goods.
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№ 463163   Added MegaMozg 13-03-2024 / 12:39
Society, instead of recognizing the danger of such a phenomenon, encourages it, since it is interested in increasing the number of obedient consumers feeding the system, and people do not understand what kind of retribution awaits them: their individuality will remain underdeveloped or will die altogether.
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№ 462961   Added Viker 13-03-2024 / 11:07
On Earth today there is a global debate about the paths of humanity, about options for exiting the general crisis into which the “golden billion” is driving us with its rampant consumption. Here is the most important, most crude choice: there are societies built like a family, and societies built like a market.
№ 461948   Added Viker 05-02-2024 / 12:53
close relationships. But we stubbornly continue to consider healthy people who do not need others. It is especially dangerous today. The feeling of community and belonging to a certain close circle is undermined daily by the endless desire to do as much as possible in the shortest possible time and to fill one's life with material wealth to the eyeballs.
№ 439502   Added Viker 26-05-2022 / 15:59
I did not find support there, I was seasick.
№ 434971   Added MegaMozg 27-01-2022 / 10:03
Although his life didn't make any sense either.
№ 432989   Added MegaMozg 12-12-2021 / 09:54
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№ 432287   Added MegaMozg 27-11-2021 / 22:33
Many will not understand, but ... children must be educated as warriors, not parasites.
№ 428663   Added Viker 29-09-2021 / 13:02
Borders are being erased. The boundaries of what is permissible, what is allowed, what is needed. Promotion of the art of indifference. Everyone is selling the tools of a happy life. Selfish life. Devaluation of simple things, people, human relations, frightens every day more and more. Marathons multiply like cockroaches, and people rush headlong, not thinking that the newly minted info-gypsies are just cynically making money on their complexes. Nothing personal. This is business, baby.
№ 426689   Added Viker 31-08-2021 / 11:37
only bundles of bills are advertised on posters.
№ 415793   Added MegaMozg 26-03-2021 / 12:36
Mothers have tears on the floor - waterfalls.
№ 415695   Added MegaMozg 23-03-2021 / 22:57
Civilization supposedly develops in order to give people happiness. But instead of happiness, she gives us a washing machine, a dishwasher and a robot cleaner, but there was no happiness, and there is no.
№ 403890   Added MegaMozg 16-09-2020 / 19:33
You don't have to have anything that is not able to carry on their shoulders.
№ 402072   Added MegaMozg 05-08-2020 / 17:06
- Gentlemen, please, eat the portions and do the same for those at the bottom... Lord... please... Please! It's time to start listening to me, because under our feet, people are dying!
- So, you bastards, do what the lady says or I'll shit on your food every day! I stir the shit so that neither piece will not stay alive, you hear me?! You will eat crap every day and say the same bastards under you! Understand me?!
- It seems to work...
- It is obvious.
But I did not expect, thought I can handle it.
- They are convinced.
- Shit?
More spontaneous solidarity.
- Let's try to convince the people at the top.
- The people upstairs won't listen to me.
Why?
- I can't shit up.
№ 395135   Added MegaMozg 16-05-2020 / 17:51