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filed in Blogging, Consumerism, Corporate, PhotoBlog, Politics, Society on Mar.20, 2010
Wow, so much time, so little done. That’s all I’m going to say about that! What can I say? I mean, I started writing this big ol’ ball o’ nothin’ way back in 2001. Back then, only weirdos were blogin’ and back then it was “E/N” (Everything/Nothing). Perhaps in such a small circle, that’s how [...]
filed in Consumerism, Society on Oct.12, 2002
Like I need to mention it, but I am not a historian nor do I have all that much knowledge of the historical state that I intend to talk about. I was thinking about how different things are today in terms of what is important in peoples’ lives and what their desires are. This is [...]
filed in Consumerism, Society on Apr.09, 2002
What has happened to society? Capitalism rolled in and gave us all the things we want. It is a system built around satisfying desires. People want stuff and they can have it. The problem with it is that it means the loss of value. If you give a kid everything he wants, he grows up [...]
filed in Consumerism, Politics, Society on Mar.16, 2002
Let me first mention the book that brought me to write about this. Every American (referring to the USA) should read this book, as well as everyone else, but Americans in particular. The book is called A People’s History of the United States written by Howard Zinn. It is a disgusting thing to realize how [...]
filed in Blogging, Consumerism, Life, Politics, Religion, Society on Feb.28, 2002
I don’t intend to elaborate on these ideas today, but it seems that there are four (maybe more, but for now…) major influences on the way the world exists for humans today. One, religion. Religion is as old as mankind and shapes the way people understand the things they cannot explain as well as an [...]
filed in Blogging, Consumerism, Society on Sep.26, 2001
For some reason I find myself increasingly bothered by all this flag flying, “God bless America,” sudden patriotism that is everywhere. These terrorists come in, destroy some important American targets, and now everyone is proud to be here. The terrorists attacked the United States for all that we stand for. Some reasons they did what [...]
filed in Blogging, Consumerism on Aug.20, 2001
Well, it is already the twentieth of August. It looks like I am updating this site like I thought I would initially. This month there are seven days of writings. I you look back at May, and June especially there were twenty updates. I started this site with the intention of occasional writing, but I [...]
filed in Consumerism, Society on May.31, 2001
I realize I said a few days back that I wanted to start focusing on understanding the psychology of my own mind because it is more important to me right now than all the “external” ideas I have talked about. Well, that is not coming along so well. I don’t know where to begin. That [...]