Social Cohesion at All-Time Low as Consumerism Rises
Americans turning to consumerism to “fill the void,” but it’s leading to depression
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Social Cohesion at All-Time Low as Consumerism Rises
Americans turning to consumerism to “fill the void,” but it’s leading to depression
Powerlessness and Consumerism
There is perhaps no better metric of class in America than personal power–what is known as agency: the power to influence or transform one’s circumstances in a a self-directed manner. Those with agency have power, those without agency (or very limited agency)…
Our Impoverished, Pathological Society
If asked what’s intrinsic to human happiness, most people in consumer societies will offer up answers such as money, status, a nice house, etc. But as Sebastian Junger observes in his book Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging, what’s actually intrinsic…
Something Extraordinary Is Happening in the World, And Most People Haven’t Noticed
‘Most of us haven’t quite realized there is something extraordinary happening. A few months ago, I freed myself from standard-procedure society. I broke the chains of fear that kept me locked up into the system. Since then, I see the world from a different perspective: the one that everything is going through change and that […]
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Spending Was At An All Time Low For Black Friday And Corporations Lost Billions
‘For years, Black Friday brawls and rampant materialism on the day after Thanksgiving have become a sort of twisted American celebration. However, each year the excitement continues to die down as people reject the Black Friday antics and instead do their shopping online or on other days. According to a survey by the National Retail […]
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Corporate Parasites And Economic Plunder: We Need A Genuine Green Revolution
‘Over the past few centuries, Western countries embarked on a road to material affluence at the expense of the environment and other peoples across the globe who were subjugated, killed or left to live in poverty. And while offering more of the same and selling unfettered capitalism to the rest of the world, Washington as […]
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Britain turns back on Black Friday shopping bonanza
‘British supermarket chain ASDA is canceling this year’s Black Friday flash sales just two years after importing the shopping tradition from the United States. The move reflects a growing backlash against Black Friday, as shoppers reveal they would prefer to have deals spread out over the holiday season rather than grouped together on one day. […]
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I Didn’t Buy Anything New For 200 Days (And You Shouldn’t Either)
‘The story of my 200-day Buy-Nothing-New challenge doesn’t start with an object or a possession. It starts with my dad, many months ago. My father had been living with me as he went through chemotherapy treatments. He was fighting a melanoma which had spread. It was a stressful time, but it was bittersweet. Thinking of […]
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Stop Financializing the Human Experience
Correspondent Dani A.M. (of Removing the Shackles) was kind enough to identify three bits of advice from my recent conversation with Max Keiser on Summer Solutions (25:45): (9:20 min: “We’ve been brainwashed into financializing the human experience.”) 1. Stop financializing the…
Liberation Is Unprofitable
If we had to summarize the sickness of our economy and society, we could start by noting that liberation is unprofitable, and whatever is not profitable to vested interests is marginalized, outlawed, proscribed or ridiculed. Examples of this abound. Liberation…
Google controls what we buy, the news we read — and Obama’s policies
‘It’s 2020. The New England Patriots, winners of six straight Super Bowls, are having yet another routine meeting with the Commissioner’s Office. Deputy NFL Commissioner Tom Brady and his chief of staff, Rob Gronkowski, OK […]
There Are More Slaves Today Than at Any Time in Human History
‘The world suffers global recession, enormous inequity, hunger, deforestation, pollution, climate change, nuclear weapons, terrorism, etc. To those who say we’re not really making progress, many might point to the fact that at least we’ve […]