Since money was invented, people's way of thinking have changed. They have shifted from being productive into being money dependents.And that causes consumerism to explode.
Consumerism has always been exploited by money-- and even farmers or producers have been selling their lands for more profits and shifting from producers into steady consumers.And we asked: why is money involved in this? Because the idea of having money changes everything... you think you can buy whatever you want-- food, shelter,clothings,anything you need and want.
Consumption mirrors, mimics and mocks the severities of labour. It is driven by the same compulsions, the same economic necessities, the same inescapable rigours and rhythms of an industrialization without end. The role of the consumer is to turn the body into an absorber of more and more industrial products, denatured but more expensive foods, medicines and remedies.
Women are always the first subject of these exploitation. We invent stuffs for their body: items made of gold, jewels, diamonds for facial, hand and arm ornaments, the use of gems, crystals, rings and even rings in nose, ears, eyebrows,anything a woman could desire and fancy... as what is being depicted on the story of the famous Eve... women were said to be the subject of temptations.
And now comes the new trend of consumption : services that "work wonders" --the manipulation of identity, be it for those who want face surgery to look like someone else, or those seeking to defeat time with anti-ageing creams. And the cosmetics industry with its shampoos of elderberry and jojoba, its facials of cucumber and wild herbs, its body-mousse of strawberries and avocado, purports to apply to our body a freshness and purity which has long ago disappeared from what we eat.
Money enslaves the so called "third world countries" which in fact are the ones who are truly rich in natural resources.These innocent people have been taught that they are poor because they don't have what westerners have-- nice clothes, fancy cars, huge houses,latest technologies, and every "rich people's bling blings" . And so these poor people got enslaved into labour inside their own territory for sugar production, tea or rubber plantationsand the list goes on ... people exploiting other people on the other side of the world for the sake of the consumers of the controlling westernized world.And as labour gets intensified in these "third world countries",an evergreater toll of the bodies of the poor are more and more exploited and consumed up to the last drop of their blood,at the same time the bodies of consumers must be pampered and protected more than ever before, so that they will go on serving as consumers of industrial products of the future.
Time will come, the people all over the world will start to feel and see the symptoms of this massive form of epidemic disease.Oh yes,Mother nature will always find a way to get rid of the causes of the imbalance--but first she will send warnings before she strikes... we might hear news about crisis in banks,hospitals,petrol companies and even government,debates about economic issues, conflicts between labourers and owners of factories..and so on.And obviously, we could see bodies wasted from insufficiency and overwork on the one hand and, at the same time, bodies bloated and wasted by excess and all the sicknesses of hyperconsumption.
Each one has to start to be wise and responsible in their own production and consumption.Those who spend too much money in the consumption of unnecessary things has to learn to consume moderately because it has always been proven that TOO MUCH OF SOMETHING IS BAD ENOUGH.
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Consumerism and Economic Enslavery
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