Everywhere in modern civilization we find our societies getting drunk on all kinds of useless freedoms; one of the most useless is that of owning pets which neatly follows from the undeniable ‘human rights’. The reason why many people buy pets these days may be familiar to what Ted Kackzynski called the power process. In this it [...]
Posts Tagged ‘consumerism’
Swamped in advertising but economy still failing
At some point, when the noise to gain ratio is so heavily on the noise side of the scale, for us fallible humans, gain discernment becomes impossible.
Economy better off with less people
While there aren’t necessarily less people in the U.S. than in recent years, there are less people working and there is less spending. Under this scenario, the following report came as a surprise for many people: Stocks continued to move higher and the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit a new 2009 intraday high Monday, extending [...]
Pentagon finds Americans too puny too stupid
Qualities substantially vary between people. These discrepencies, according to this report, are significant enough spell the difference between a great nation that is able to protect its interests and project its power if necessary, and a nation in decline bound for diminished influence and terminal insignificance if doesn’t end up conquered by someone stronger. More [...]
Lawns are a design defect
One of the pillars of modern society is the idea of selling everyone luxuries they not only can live without, but would be better off as a whole never buying into. Private companies and individuals alike buy into needless luxuries. This is in part due to ordinance requirements in some locales. In other cases, like [...]
Halloween: when fun subverts meaning
Fillet of a fenny snake, In the caldron boil and bake: Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder’s fork, and blind-worm’s sting, Lizard’s leg, and howlet’s wing, For a charm of powerful trouble; Like a hell-broth boil and bubble. From William Shakespeare’s Macbeth Act IV, Scene I [...]
Witless crowd empowers its own devils
In a speech at the 1991 Bilderberg Convention, Rockefeller stated “we are grateful to The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine, and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for [...]
500 companies agree to distract you from ecocide
One of the most prominent topics for mainstream audiences around the world today is global warming. The reaction to this topic takes many forms. Some say climate change is a natural, periodic event that happens to our planet at various times in history. Others say human activity is causing the planet to warm up. It [...]
The Neo-Neighborhood (Minus Culture)
Boston, and New England in general, has a lot to be proud of as it relates to early American history. Massachusetts housed one of the first settlements of what would become colonial America in Plymouth Plantation, and some of this country’s early, civil libertarian leaders and even Presidents came from Massachusetts. This nation was chock [...]