Consume To Conform - Buying Our Way To Misery

“Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence—those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you'd collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.”
― Aldous Huxley

Wanna stay relevant un a society that thrives off superficiality? Spend your savings away. Live beyond your means. Isn’t your end goal wanting to be seen? Voluntarily stuck in the prison of conformity, we taking pleasure in throwing our pennies away like we're playing a non stop game of monopoly. Social recognition is the fuel that keeps us going a thousand miles an hour on the highway of consumerism. Can’t stop. Won’t stop. Till bankruptcy shows up.

The competition to keep our spot in the game has never been more fierce. The supply is always high, blame it on our collective unconsciousness, that’s sinking to the lowest of the lows. Sucks for us that we can’t possibly win a competition in which hedonic adaptation is our opponent. Shopping for status rather than survival comes at a high price.

On our run to posses the newest gadgets, we have forgotten that it is us who are possessed by Capitalism who pulls up the strings. We have been led to believe that life is meant to happen in a state of having, rather than in a state of being. Turning from gratitude to greed, we have lost touch with the true meaning of life.