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RE: What I Learned in the Zeitgeist Movement | Part 2: "Waste = Profit"
Great article! ...Yeah, I like Abby too. Planned obsolescence came about within thirty years after the invention of light bulb ... Energy and Medicine, which I'm glad you covered here, really is not well suited for a profit motivated economy in serving humanity, unlike cell phones and big screens. What's really disgusting is when one considers how war itself is a 'make work' part of the present economy ...
Excellent example! The issue with this"make work" attitude is that the most destructive and hazardous activities suddenly become justifiable and normal, especially with war as you mentioned.
It really drives home the point well and I used to mention a similar example all the time when I was in the movement discussing our economic system with people on the street.
"So everybody has to have a job to pay the rent huh?"
-- "Of course"
"Any job?"
-- "Any job that pays enough"
"Like cleaning the streets or selling groceries?"
-- "Yes"
"What about bomb manufacturers, machine gun producers, nerve gas labs and war-drone factories? Don't they need workers too?"
-- "Well yes, but I would never work for them! But I guess it's good for the economy in the end... and someone can put food on the table"
"What about the people in Iraq who have no comparable income to begin with and get those same bombs dropped on their houses - bombs manufactured by someone over here because he 'just needed some job to pay his rent?'"
-- no answer
Yes ... That hypocrisy I would estimate, comes from a lack of personal agency ... So many moral philosophies start with a rather good paradigm, 'Right Livelihood' or 'Do unto others' ... but so few engage themselves deeply enough to go beyond obedience, and too often to obey an unqualified authoritarian, whose qualifications would immediately appear bankrupt through just a modicum of critical thought that seems to be lacking as your example illustrates ...
Sadly people are trained by 'factory schooling' to not engage in critical thinking by themselves. So how do we reverse this trend? ... Perhaps only incrementally in our lifetimes, and the species will eventually evolve, without annihilating itself (and all others!) in the meantime ...
For me everything changed when I stumbled upon good evidence to suggest that our whole mode of existence may the be the issue as such, meaning the way in which we interpret the world around us and our place in it. Ever since my first looks behind the curtain with certain shamnic tools what has been absolutely certain before is not so anymore.
I get sad and frustrated from time to time with the sleepers and the human drones running around. then I realize it simply has to be that way. Why? Because it is ;)
Took forever to get that, but ever since I had a really hard time connecting with movement people fundamentally. Because our assumptions had drifted apart so much.
Really happy to have aware people in my digital tribe here. thanks for dropping your thoughts <3
On that thought, one must consider two things, first humans are essentially 'entropy generators' especially as long as we're still hooked on fossil fuel, we're forever taking matter/energy from a highly ordered state (a well or a coal seam) and converting it to work where it then heats and dissipates into the atmosphere... Since this ultimately degrades the environment, we really must reconsider the entire 'Work Ethic' ...
Indeed great meeting so many intelligent, observant folks all in one place here on steemit! Thank you, my friend!