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Why we are so great

CONSUMERISM

Ralph Bakker:

– Consumerism is used to control the populace by building a society in which political obedience is rewarded with shinny objects.

– Consumerism tampers with human emotions by making people feel empty so they can fill the void with crap.

– Consumerism is based on false dreams; this is why avid consumers tend to be extremely delusional.

– Consumerism is based on false dreams that get the masses to believe that the hell of consuming one’s life away is a utopia.

– Consumerist culture is very conformist in nature because creativity is the antithesis of consumption.

– Consumerism strips away an individual’s identity by shifting their gaze away from political consciousness towards stuff.

– Consumer culture turns people into status-seeking fiends; this is why some people cannot be seen in public without brand name accessories.

– Consumption is used by the ruling class to turn the children of the people into future corporate wage-slaves, aided by credit.

– Consumerism has taken over human lives like an infectious, psychological, disease spreading manically from mind to mind.

– The consumerist-society is an oxymoronic term because consumerism is based on isolation and mental conditioning.

– Consumer culture is anti-creative because it laughs at anyone who questions the corporate ideology of the whole rotting system.

– Many people are addicted to buying stuff because the upper class profits immensely from this addiction.

– Credit is used to accelerate mindless consumption; this is the ultimate method of turning workers into wage-slaves.

– Consumerism is designed to create an anxious populace; this is why children are increasing hyper and lacking in focus.

– Consumerist society is based on mindless mimicry; this is why the capitalist system is losing all sense of creativity and originality.

– Consumerism is dependent on the ideology of instant gratification which turns people into addicts to immediate satisfaction.

– Consumerism turns children into obese symbols of an obese capitalist culture.

– Capitalist profit from consumerism by using it to drive a system based on massive debts.

– Consumer culture turns people into status-seeking fiends; this is why many people will prostitute themselves for brand name items.

– Consumer culture turns people into status-seeking fiends who chase brands like wild maniacs for the sake of peer approval.

– Consumer culture turns people into status-seeking fiends who establish deep relationships with brands instead of human beings.

– Consumerism turns children into apolitical junkies who stare at television ads, ironically enough, in search of meaning.

– Consumerism is not a byproduct of human nature; it is a disease which turns loving human beings into insane consumptive zombies.

– Many people are addicted to buying stuff and their addiction is the only reason why the obese capitalist system continues to survive.

– Mass consumption is mass destruction because it destroys the ecosystem and its ability to sustain itself.

– The consumer-society will destroy itself because it destroys the intellectual capacity of those who believe in it.

– The ideology of consumerism is part and parcel of the imperialist agenda; this is why consumer societies lack revolutionary instincts.

– The consumerist-society is an oxymoronic term because consumerism is designed to crush social solidarity.

– Hollywood promotes consumerism by creating visual flows that are designed to turn citizens into mimicking consumer-fools.

– Consumerism deforms human relationships by putting the focus on transactions rather than personal interactions and ideas of each other.

– Consumerism is designed to create an anxious populace; this is why many people run around chasing gadgets instead of political freedom.

– Consumerism strips away an individual’s identity by turning them into a needy, infantile, consumer.

– The act of consumption is political because in buying products and brands citizens are submitting to the materialist formulation of life.

– The act of consumption is political because when citizens consume products they are subscribing to the ideology of the corporate elite.

– Consumerism tampers with human emotions by exploiting the natural need to belong and turning it towards consumption habits.

– Consumerism is based on false dreams that turn human beings into delusional fanatics of trinkets and gadgets.

– Consumer culture turns people into status-seeking fiends who will do anything, absolutely anything, for luxury brands.

– Consumer society is self destructive because it creates monstrous human beings with violent, insatiable, appetites.

– Consumer culture turns people into status-seeking fiends, destroying their soul by becoming entirely superficial.

– Credit is used to accelerate mindless consumption; this is how the sick capitalist society perpetuates its dying self.

– Consumerism is based on false dreams that penetrate the psychology of the individual and holds them hostage to materialism.

– Mass consumption is mass destruction because it destroys people’s abilities to communicate about anything more than stuff.

– Advertising is used to brainwash people into consumption by making people feel constantly lacking in something or another.

– Consumerism is used by the ruling class to keep the human dialogue focused on stuff instead of political change.

– The consumer society brings out avarice out of human beings, making them constantly want more regardless of the wastefulness.

– Capitalist profit from consumerism by turning human existence into a pathetic sequence of consumptive decisions.

– Consumerism fosters narcissism by promoting celebrity personalities that are highly egotistical and narcissistic.

– Consumerism is dependent on the ideology of instant gratification which turns human beings into drugged up ‘happiness’ addicts.

– The consumer society brings out a general sickness, social apathy, a malaise, a miasma, a perpetual nausea.

– Consumer society is self destructive because it sells a vision of a utopia while laying human creativity to waste.

– Consumerism leads to widening the gap between rich and poor because it puts all power in the hands of those making the crap.

– Consumerism turns children into mental slaves to the ideology of corporate commercialism.

– Consumerism has become its own religion; this is why some people spend $700 on True Religion jeans.

– Responsible citizens must reject consumerism by demanding a society that serves its citizens, not merely conditions them.

– Consumerism captures people’s psychology by turning the human dialogue into an intricate advertisement for goods and services.

– Consumerism has taken over human lives; it has destroyed the psychology of millions of citizens, turning them into shopaholic slaves.

– Consumption is a drug because many people are willing to prostitute their minds in order to attain disgusting luxuries.

– Consumerist culture is very conformist in nature; this is why people who consume avidly are indifferent to political repression.

– The act of consumption is political because when a citizen buys corporate brands they are legitimizing the rule of the corporate elite and bankers.

– Consumerism strips away an individual’s identity by filling their heart with materialistic, vain, ambitions.

– Consumption is a very psychological act because buying the products of corporations makes the populace complicit in its own oppression.

– Responsible citizens must reject consumerism by spreading the seeds of dissent against a decadent social system.

– Consumerism is not a byproduct of human nature; it is anti-human, misanthropic, it reduces people to consuming cattle.

– Consumerism fosters narcissism by killing people’s abilities to relate to each other outside of the ‘who’s better than who’ paradigm.

– Consumerist society is based on mindless mimicry, making it a society which is very bland and fascistically uniform.

– Credit is used to accelerate mindless consumption; this is why many people refinance their homes so they can buy utter crap.

– Consumerism is capitalism’s way of infiltrating human life and turning it into a machine that consumes itself.

– The Consumerist-Society is spiritually dead because it leaves no room for creativity, everything must serve The Economy Boogieman.

– Consumerism tampers with human emotions by using nostalgia to ramp up Christmas consumption.

– Consumerism is used by the ruling class to control the conversation between friends, family members and strangers.

– Consumerism leads to widening the gap between rich and poor because the poor are brainwashed into desiring the products of the rich.

– Consumerism has become its own religion; this is why the masses go to pray at the mall during Holidays.

– Consumerism is used by the ruling class to ensure that the dominant narrative is that of consuming, of stuff, of material desires.

– Consumerism is designed to create an anxious populace because an anxious populace is a politically impotent one.

– Consumerism is dependent on the ideology of instant gratification; this is why ad campaigns make grotesque promises of immediate happiness.

– Consumerism obliterates human spirituality because its goal is to transform human beings into consuming machines.

– Consumerist culture is very conformist in nature because capitalists long to reduce human beings to easily categorized consumers.

– Consumerism is designed to imprison people in debt; this debt then works to coerce them into a lifetime of wage-slavery.

– Consumption is a very psychological act; this is why the majority of consumers are psychologically and thus politically passive.

– Consumerism leads to widening the gap between rich and poor because it destroys the collective identity of the populace.

– Citizens can resist the consumerist impulse by refusing to participate in holidays which are mere commercial charades.

– Consumerism captures people’s psychology by turning the flow of information towards consumer products and services.

– Brands are used to brand people into consumer-slaves to the corporate agenda.

– Consumerist society is based on mindless mimicry; this is why teenagers who choose to deviate are ostracized and bullied.

– Consumer society is self destructive because it is highly dependent on the violent intensity of hedonistic gratification.

– The act of consumption is political because at some point consumers are willing to forfeit all political rights for their dose of stuff.

– Consumerism is capitalism’s way of infiltrating human life and rendering it creatively, spiritually and intellectually obsolete.

– Responsible citizens must reject consumerism or risk having their lives consumed by its ravenous forces.

– Consumerism is self-destructive because it eats away at a human being’s mind and visions.

– Consumer culture is anti-creative because it values stuff over ideas.

– Consumer culture is anti-creative because it does not allow anyone the chance to exist outside of its money-based prisons.

– Consumerism fosters narcissism by planting the seed of self-differentiation based on consumption habits.

– Consumerism is used to control the populace by offering gadgets and trinkets in return for political submission.

– The Consumerist-Society is spiritually dead because it warps human interactions into financial transactions.

– Consumerism tampers with human emotions by making people who don’t have certain products feel like failures.

– Consumerism does not bring leisure to the human race; it brings wantonness, neediness and a disgusting sense of apathy.

– Consumerism is capitalism’s way of infiltrating human life and turning it into a bestial system of consuming the world around it.

– Brands are used to brand people into infantile consumers who feel stupidly empowered by expensive logos and designer objects.

– The consumer society brings out fear out of human beings, the fear of being left behind on some imagined race towards prosperity.

– Consumerism has taken over human lives and only revolution can surgically remove it from the mass psychology of the people.

– Consumerism deforms human relationships by getting people to focus on product releases instead of each other’s thoughts and ideas.

– Many people are addicted to buying stuff because the mass media is a machine designed to intensify consumption.

– Consumption is a very psychological act because it is an expression of people’s mental need to belong to a broken society.

– Consumerism obliterates human spirituality because it destroys a person’s ability to see the world outside of the prism of consumption.

– Many people are addicted to buying stuff because we live in a society that encourages this addiction.

– Consumerism is designed to imprison people in debt; at some point someone has to pay for all the things that are being overconsumed.

– Consumerism is based on false dreams; this is why the capitalist state sponsors lotteries that encourage people to dream away.

– Capitalist profit from consumerism by using it to take back what little allowance the populace is given.

– Consumerism is not a byproduct of human nature; it strips the human mind of all that makes it brilliant and bold.

– Responsible citizens must reject consumerism and adopt a political ideology that revolutionizes citizens instead of numbing them down.

– The consumer society brings out self-hatred out of human beings, so that they are constantly buying a new self-image.

– Consumerism is used to control the populace by promising them ‘happiness’ if they submit to a lifetime of spineless wage-slavery.

– Consumer culture is anti-creative because it values productivity over creation.

– Consumerism has become its own religion; this is why Apple fanatics called Steve Jobs their iGod.

– Consumer culture is anti-creative because it is about selling, buying, consuming; never about knowing and understanding.

– Consumption is used by the ruling class to turn rebellious, bold, children into slaves to material objects and desires.

– Consumption is used by the ruling elite to keep the children of the exploited people amused and distracted by nonsense.

– Consumption is used by the ruling class to ensure that children’s minds remain within the sick worldview of capitalism.

– Citizens can resist the consumerist impulse by defying the advertising industry and deconstructing the shit out of it.

– The Consumerist-Society is spiritually dead because it turns human energy into a mere lubricant for more mindless consumption.

– Consumerist society is based on mindless mimicry; this is why many people fail to create anything authentic in their entire lives.

– Hollywood promotes consumerism by creating the impression that the US is a paradise of consumption,even as 10 million in the US are homeless.

– Hollywood promotes consumerism by selling a vision of life in which everything is available for consumption, all the time.

– Consumerism turns children into obedient automatons that follow orders because following orders is rewarded with stuff.

– The citizen becomes the wage-slave when he sacrifices his intellectual freedom for the sake of brand name rubbish.

– Consumerism obliterates human spirituality because it destroys a person’s ability to see the world outside of the prism of consumption.

– Consumerism has become its own religion; this is why the masses go to pray at the mall during Holidays.

– Consumerist culture is very conformist in nature; this is why advertisements are full of social stereotypes.

– Citizens can destroy their inner consumer by destroying their attachments to the poisons of consumerist-society.

– Consumerism does not bring leisure to the populace; it brings suffering, humiliation, and an absolute destruction of the human community.

– Brands are used to brand people into machines of mass consumption.

RB / JdM”

Şarlatanii…

Emoţiile

”Emotional Conditioning

Emotions are a totally subjective inner experience. Why is this?

Well, we don’t all have the same beliefs, and it is often our conscious or unconscious beliefs that shape our reaction to the people and events in the world around us.

Because of this, we can’t really trust our feelings to lead us to any objective truth. This is not to say that emotions are useless and should be disregarded or ignored. On the contrary, they can be quite destructive if they are not consciously acknowledged. Feelings like rage or hatred often become deeply suppressed in one’s shadow, because their outward expression in society is considered taboo. Traumatic and painful feelings also can be repressed – such as in cases of childhood abuse – where the child becomes overwhelmed and must push this content into the unconscious as a matter of survival.

Emotions themselves are not inherently good or bad; they are merely tools that we can use to learn more about ourselves and the world at large. They can reveal to us what our unconscious beliefs actually are and what we’ve just been conditioned from birth to accept as true without question. And through that we also learn about the world and the types of messages society would like to have us believe.

One can use emotion to discover, acknowledge and deconstruct false thought programs. Conditioning is a process by which a stimulus creates a response (in this case an emotion) which is reinforced over time through repetition. Each time ____ happens to you, you feel ____.

There are times when we find our emotion is invalid, and in this case it needs to be recognized as false, and challenged. For example, if you used to be a christian and have since left the faith, you might feel guilt or shame when engaging in sex, or any other activity that could be seen as “sinful”. This is pure emotional conditioning, and it takes a lot of work to get rid of that emotional charge. You may rationally understand that this is a false belief that is causing you grief, but it takes time and effort to de-condition that emotional response.

Other times, our feelings may be perfectly valid and have rational underpinnings. I am consistently enraged at the appalling conditions on this planet, led by capitalism, the religious brainwashing of children, and the staggering greed of the rich elite. This is a perfectly valid response to a culture that actively suppresses the freedom of humanity to realize their potential. The structure supporting my anger is not a belief; it is the objective reality we all live in. I realize that for most of my life, I was actively conditioned to be a consumer for the capitalist machine, and for that I am even more enraged.

You can have feelings based in logic and rational thought, or you can base them in irrational, insane and destructive beliefs. The difference is, when your feelings are based on rational inquiry and understanding, they become your fuel. It’s like filling your car with gas, but having a competent and fully licensed driver to steer the car in the direction you want to go. You cannot steer your car with the fuel. And you can’t just burn the fuel on it’s own either, without having a place to put it and something for it to do. It would literally just explode and burn you alive. Or imagine a driver with pathological road rage, who is unlicensed and doesn’t understand the rules of the road. They smash into everything, maiming pedestrians and endangering other drivers, until they crash and burn or drive right off a bridge.

Emotions that remain unharnessed to rational thinking are incredibly problematic for humanity. Above all, emotions must be guided by reason.

So, if you notice a strong emotion come up for you in a given situation, see it as an opportunity to learn something about yourself. Analyze it to discover its source. Is this something you have repressed and need to examine more closely? What beliefs do you have that are foundational to the feelings you have, and can you find a way to challenge them?

For a detailed guide on how to de-condition your emotions, and deconstruct false thought structures, Morgue’s book “The Metaphorical Suicide” goes right to the heart of how to accomplish this. https://www.iamhyperian.com/product/themetaphoricalsuicide/

Also check out “Cathexis: A Rationalist Dialogue on Guiding Emotion” by our own Hyperian activists and authors the Tortured Orator and Rowan James. https://www.amazon.com/Cathexis-Rationalist-Di…/…/B07HXPTG3Y

One last mention: Diabolically Informative’s lecture series on Critical Thinking touches on many important and relevant topics such as belief and cognitive biases. https://www.youtube.com/playlist…

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