Entries Tagged ‘Consumerism’:
filed in Life, Philosophy on Apr.30, 2008
I received an email copied below (Jen, please email me if you want this removed) almost a year ago and I just decided to post it. Read the email and my response follows. The major theme is that the meaning of life seems to have been a struggle of younger days and that the search [...]
Tags: Consumerism, happiness, Life, meaning
filed in Corporate, Life, Politics, Society on Nov.25, 2005
Some questions come to be asked because of relevance to your current situation. Sometimes questions get asked because assumptions are being challenged. But sometimes questions come from an unsettling feeling deep inside your mind down to the core of your body. I’m fully aware that the anxiety I feel more and more regularly could very [...]
Tags: anxiety, capitalism, conflict, Consumerism, technology
filed in Corporate, Life, Politics, Society on Aug.21, 2005
Most people today were brought up with television advertising and the younger the person is the more pervasive the exposure. People accept the advertising as a fact of life and it is at a point where the vision it creates also sets a standard for individual happiness. Without even questioning it, people are buying a [...]
Tags: advertising, Consumerism, corporations, illusion, Religion