Technology, Consumer TV Units and the Idea of Future Consumerism

A lot of people are worried about Wal-Mart taking over the planet. There are a lot of worries about consumerist habits. It’s scary to think of them only growing into larger cancers of oppression for humanity. Consumerism, after all, has such an ugly past in America. Many people think, in such a bone dry economy, how could we expect anything less? Wal-Mart, industrialized meat farms… these things make it easy to continue living for the contemporary american through reasonable means. It’s not unreasonable to be afraid of this, because it is reasonable to be short sided at this time. Currently we see graphs of meat consumption decreasing, and what that represents is an old paradigm dying.

Consumerism in the 60’s 70’s 80’s and 90’s was simply just a misguided form of what everyone wants in consumerism. We consume to benefit our lives. How do we know what benefits our lives? Through information. During the economic boom that started in America in the 60’s, almost 80% of people were living with televisions in their houses; out of them, around 30% of their commercials represented fast food. Television was just a tool for capitalism – a little capitalism box that gave us information on how to consume! But the motivation was to stimulate a capitalistic society… and capitalism, as we know, does not have anything to do with morality, or the benefit of humanity. It can be done ethically, but it does not require ethics does not require benefit for people to work effectively.

Isnt it an incredible idea to think about, that almost all of our information about reality was acquired through television?

With almost every person in the free world online everyday sharing information, we have superseded our titles of capitalistic consumers. We no longer consumer capitalism, because, frankly, we know better now. This is the age of information consumerism. The more that capitalism starts to decline, the more awake the consumer is. We are no longer a people that are satiating a market that does not represent our best interests; we are in control of how we live in the technological age of consumerism. We are all informed consumers. Soon all of the injustices of the earth will be able to become exposed in a matter of days, through online petitioning, and awareness. Every crevice of consumerism is debated and scrutinized now with the internet. Each decision we will make in the future will not be a senseless purchase, but a vote for the sake of ourselves, and the holistic quality of our families, societies, and earth itself.

The Tools of Time.

We don’t think of time passing unless we use our “egoism.” The best definition of the ego is something like: The part of yourself you use to feel alright in unknowing. However much needs to be chipped away to get to your personal sculpture, it nevertheless defines this excess. This imaginary alarm of lack of knowing. Communication is the tool we use to breakdown the buildup. The inner sculpture, the self we know to be the real us, is the one with the tools in hand. Communication appeals to him only. When communication is slim more ego plaque builds. Infrequent interactions come as industrial sized ego busters, like pic axes, and  sledgehammers. Natural disasters to restore balance… major events. When communication gets more frequent,  the pic axe turns into a chisel, then a drill, then it just turns into an electrical computer, sifting information and humming beautifully. At this “time,” time is of lesser importance. Like I said, this is because our real character, is in direct relation to time! We sense most beauty in timlessness, and that happens through communication.

We are dolphins of time growing into whales. Going above water frequently to breath the time before, now we can dive a little deeper, and stay a little longer. All of us.

People are the best aesthetic

Aesthetics are things about things, second order universals. They can change… we are 70% water, the most changeable thing. The coolest aesthetic is when you feel different being around different people