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Consumerism, from an anti state perspective. State, Private, on higher levels are the same fraction of a ruling oligopolistic power.

What is your opinion on people that worry about consumism, having items mass produced. I think consumism is buying things priming first their symbolical status over their use value. Does worrying about void heads, that: vote candidates not by their political position but by their advertising. buy things blindly, just by brands, without thinking about their specifications. value things not by their own judgement, but with a dogma adoctrined by mass media (be it, moral, religious, aesthetic). Implies that you have to live in a cave? without any mass produced stuff? or you are a false hypocrite that just have to shut off? Example: You cant preach against consumism because you have any of: x hobby that use mass produced items x mass produced bike x mass produced car Specially on oligopolical markets. You cant talk about animal rights, because you eat honey, meat, use leather, etc.

i got awaked, after listening to Bill Hicks with the voice of Alex Jones (much quieter/calm than then guy). Saying: El propio concepto de propiedad privada esta alienado cuando las personas que deberian consumir estan sin techo y los negocios vacios. Something like: "The own concept of private propiety is wrong, when the people that should to be buying things is homeless and the shops empty" Or how the true problem/originators of the habitational deficit and poverty issue are the big chain stores. I wasn't listening to Hicks, or Jones (like the guy, but not the sentationalist ways he uses to inform) recently. In fact the only thing that im only watching from time to time is Portlandia. Neither doing drugs. What i remember about the dream is that everything was so choice-of-a-choice-of-a-choice/ bureaucracy and not content at all, that it was getting me anguish. People wasnt speaking only repeating preprogramed speeches to sell things. It was like a 90 graphic adventure game. I rarely have this kind of dreams, just basic infantile dreams without much content about situations, or loop dreams (dream inside a dream), about the place i sleep /common situations/ or job, just reading or numbers doesnt make sense to me when read. On dreams im more a exagerated freak/pathological anxious person than im. But no or few understanding/concepts at all, the cities/scenography look more like flawed empty cities computer random generated than with meaning, all feel colorless. Personally dont know what the generated images or my own thinking are so childish/boring there, may be is a reflection of my own reality. Probably i have to travel/relocate more from places and known people. Neither im a literature/poetry reader, i tend to like social/political/philosophical essays. dont watch too much movies either. Literature is the natural language of the mind, the way knowledge is reflected in thinking through structure. Maybe i should start reading less philosophy and more authors influenced by the kind of philosophy i lke. How do you often have philosophical dreams? or philosophy/abstractive elements on your dreams? Im not talking about an after interpretation of a dream, but the content and the relationship with that pseudo consciousness that you have. you do it a lot ? how do you stimulate that? I think the main thing im referring is thinking abstraction levels inside the dream.

Yes, we grow up in the same situation, and violence was not just from my parents, but on each others. I have the bias that he is wasting social experience, locking up in his inner self, just for the blame of hating people, in prejudice of his development as a person. I think this issue is really a manifestation caused by emotional damage, and going through this paths he is not really healing, just fueling his hate/alienation. But i know that i have gone also in other contrarian paths being questioned about that (mainly anti christianism, posmodernism, anarchism), and is just fool to fight about it, labeling his thinking as bad or despecting him as a black sheep. What I merely can do is just, dialogue with arguments. I also see limitations on my choices, because i had/have problems creating ideas /formulating arguments, but a big facillity/attachment to destroy/deconstruct everything. Disbelief that is interfering with my own thought/development, i dont like the same for him, in the end is all about believing in our own acts (be it emotional or rational), without it one cannot learn/construct nothing, and sadly some kind of basic illusion is needed to build upon (but i dont think a racist illusion is good).

Hi, i have this issue: My brother, is a little racist about minorities (inmigrants, black people, jews, homosexuals, poor people), he says he it isnt, because he doesnt goes arround banging minorities, that to be a racist one haves to apply violence, his choice is just dont mixing with "these" people that he views as the cancer of society. He denies holocaust, blames illegal inmigrants about jobs, talks about a zionist cospiracies, and thinks that white people is in reality discriminated/segregated, because it doesnt have the possibilities to fight about their own cause or self pride like the self right minorities have, because it is seen as plain racism. Socio economic background: We live and are from south america, Argentina, yes there is a moral decay everywhere, but it is caused by state corruption, instead of marginalized people by society. We belong to white lower medium class/ working class. Our ancestors came here from Italy a long time ago, like new inmigrants are now coming from near countries. For me nationalism, is plainly stupid, in the end, people from near countries, have native descendency from this continent, we are just masses of trash expelled by europe, that came used to motivate the systematic robbery of local natives from power elites. He is just a teeneger, doesnt works, and is in the last years of what there is called high school, is true that we had hard times of fammiliar violence in childhood, but to me is not sane projecting emotional load as hate on minorities. Instead of studying, or trying, to improve new skills/knowledge , he is just compulsively centered on absorving racist biased information. My main problem, is this the more i read, the more desbelief i am, and try to no absorve information/knowledge as packets be it movies, books (philosophy, sciene, politics), internet, etc. I have the impression that all this mass information material that i like/absorve, is just lazy indoctrination, motivated for a need to fill a emotinal craving of knowledge, that in reality has to be formulated within ones rationality, not preaching someone elses truths. To me is hypotrical , to try to contrarest what i think his false arguments are (i have an emotional attachment to think that he has an emotional bias about minorities), without before indoctrinating my own self in contra argumentative authors contrarian to what he is preaching, From one points, he blames chavism, cuban communism, Che Guevara, like mercenaries but in the other end he idealizes nazism (this can be explained because my mother is a lot hippy, lefty, and perhaps he subconsciously blames she for years of misery, passive aggresive violency during childhood). He also hates psychologists. Or blames jews about palestine killing, and denies holocaust. What can i do about this situation? is bad to take his crystal castle ideolegy where he inside plays a chess made from pieces of stereotypes/and prejudices and destroy it?

Hi, sorry for the delay. I was preparing exams. I thought this because, is something that makes little noise on my ears, but i dont think prohibitionism, is the solution, i/we can only limit to put some awareness on foreigners for the value of what they are paying ( expensives souvenirs from China), and make tourism more local and self sustaining but nothing more. Just posted this to know how to interact in this forum, really i have to think in a self evaluated concept for value. I will just limit to say that something is valuable if it contributes to serve a functional need more higher than the expending on energy consumed for creating and recycling its material components.

Hi im new here, a time ago i discovered Stefan work searching some youtube videos, in that moment i liked the concept that he was aprochhing in that video (i think about procastination) but i didnt search beyond I want to ask about tourism. My posititon is that it is an artificial economy that doesnt countribute anything useful,raises the local costs of living to the standards of people spending from vacation money, promotes a serie of business mounted on a illusory national fake sell/for export culture, prohibitive and useless for locals. I know that this is a consumer related problem, but tourists dont have much notion about real local economies, they just buy illusions. I dont think that tourism for the sake of being less damaging to the enviroment directly is more useful in a region, than say improving local manufacture/ technological industries. How do you think tourism benefits/impacts on local economies? what are my defective reasonings?