Did anyone ever consider that maybe we don't need to buy so much crap anyway! All of the modern world seems to revolve around buying and spending. Its a shame that the primary way people interact in this day and age is through money. That denotes a pretty shallow culture. I hate being labeled a consumer. As if my only purpose in existance is to consume. By this logic it would only seem that my value as a human is based primarily on my ability to consume. You know what happens when people consume too much? They get fat. Then what? They get a slew of illness like high blood pressure, diabetes, cancer, etc... The parrellel I am drawing here is between eating and buying. What good is having a bunch of crap you never use? It is only an obsession to distract people from things of real value or from actually being conscious beings. Sure, lets just watch hours of television every day and get spoon fed the latest crap and not think for ourselves. Let's drink cola and buy the latest retarded gadget that someone only invented to make money. The thing winds up being crap anyway and God forbid you throw it out! Wouldn't want to be wasteful! So the thing goes in the closet right next to the flowbee.
Rest assured the problem isn't lack of money. It is only a problem of distribution. Someone has some money! When will the exploitation end? When will people learn that greed doesn't pay off? I am positive that anyone who hoards wealth that they 'earned' through selfish endeavors only winds up miserable. A certain fraction of the wealthy are actually very poor spiritually. While their bank accounts are large, their hearts are small. Certainly there are some wealthy people that have big hearts too.
I don't own a television because I refuse to have my mind polluted. But I catch snippets of what's on TV when I'm out and about. It's hard not to. The putrid vessels are everywhere. Anyway, it's all economy this, economy that! Let's figure out a way to get people to spend more. Why?! To make jobs? Again this only points to making people's purpose consumption. We need to sell stuff so someone has a job working in a factory making the junk.
Perhaps we need to reevaluate what our objective is. I think we should consume less. it's an addiction like eating or smoking too much. It winds up being destructive.
