Minnesota Repossessor Don Mashak ADVOCATES ECONOMIC ANTI-CONSUMERISM & ANTI-MATERIALISM
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Minnesota Repossessor Don Mashak ADVOCATES ECONOMIC ANTI-CONSUMERISM & ANTI-MATERIALISM
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1st Draft - Personal Anti-Consumerism / Anti-Materialism / Anti-Vicarious Living
Please bear with me as I try to yoke together the various components of my personal philosophies and perspectives on this/these topics.
I begin with the A personal belief that I should want and buy something because I want it, not because somebody else told me I wanted it. Many, many times my various young relatives have asked me to buy various things for them, and I have asked them "Do you want this because you want this, or becuase a freind has it or because a TV commerical or celebrity have told you you wanted it?" As could be anticipated, I have usually been rewarded for my efforts with the rolled eyes and the "you are so not in touch" feedback or "if you loved me"...
This invariably leads to my feeling compelled to attempt to tell them how to veiw commericals and celebrity endorsements. I tell them that they should stop viewing commercials as harmless. Instead, they should veiw them as attempts to get money out of their pockets and into the adverstisers pockets. It is the entire purpose of commericals and celebrity endorsements.
We as a society have been duped into thinking we are free when we can buy what someone else tells us we want or need. In reality, commercials manipulate us into buying things we don't really need. In buying those things we are told we need or want, we get on the economic treadmill of being forced to work longer hours to pay for things we already have and bought and credit and new things we desire to have. (Parallel Thought Process - Increase Your Happiness by Limiting Your Choices)
"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
This is a link to a website on Anti-Consumerism
that contains some good perspectives and some more radical "though processes" on Anti-Consumerism. The New Anti-Consumerism
Please forgive this unfinished Lens as this is a evolving work in progress.
http://www.sustainableenterprises.com/Planet/anticonsumer.htm
http://www.davidjmiller.org/anti-materialism/
http://www.verdant.net/
Anti-Consumerism, Anti-Materialism, Anti-Vicarious Living Videos
Buy Nothing Day 2008, November 28 | Black Friday Protest
Buy Nothing Day is an informal day of protest against consumerism observed by social activists. Typically celebrated the Friday after Thanksgiving in North America and the next day internationally, in 2008 the dates will be November 28 and 29 respectively. It was founded by Vancouver artist Ted Dave and subsequently promoted by the Canadian Adbusters magazine. The first Buy Nothing Day was organized in Vancouver in September of 1992 "as a day for society to examine the issue of over-consumption." In 1997, it was moved to the Friday after American Thanksgiving, which is one of the top 10 busiest shopping days in the United States. Outside of North America, Buy Nothing Day is celebrated on the following Saturday. Despite controversies, Adbusters managed to advertise Buy Nothing Day on CNN, but many other major television networks declined to air their ads. Soon, campaigns started appearing in United States, the United Kingdom, Israel, Germany, New Zealand, Japan, the Netherlands, and Norway. Participation now includes more than 65 nations. While critics of the day charge that Buy Nothing Day simply causes participants to buy the next day,[4] Adbusters states that it "isn't just about changing your habits for one day" but "about starting a lasting lifestyle commitment to consuming less and producing less waste." Source: Wikipedia Suddenly, we ran out of money and, to avoid collapse, we quickly pumped liquidity back into the system. But behind our financial crisis a much more ominous crisis looms: we are running out of nature fish, forests, fresh water, minerals, soil. What are we going to do when supplies of these vital resources run low? Theres only one way to avoid the collapse of this human experiment of ours on Planet Earth: we have to consume less. It will take a massive mindshift. You can start the ball rolling by buying nothing on November 28th. Then celebrate Christmas differently this year, and make a New Years resolution to change your lifestyle in 2009. Its now or never! Source: http://www.adbusters.org/campaigns/bnd For more information on Buy Nothing Day, visit the AdBusters site at: http://www.adbusters.org/campaigns/bnd And for information on the designer, check out: http://www.jessconfer.com
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Books and other resources on Anti-Consumerism, Anti-Materialism & Anti-Vicarious Living
Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole
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