You probably want to write something that might explain to people what this is.
In case anyone is wondering it looks like shit.
I don't buy it!
no doubt binned by a capitalist hit man. i was credit crunched.
art sales are rocketing. the rich are pouring their money into solid assets
image sales. for media and advertising are slackening off.
i believe. we are reaching the apocolyptic peak of consumer frenzy.
boom and bust . sinister forces are pulling the strings.
Call me naive. But I'd decided not to have a 'financial crisis'
i don't watch TV. avoid newspapers like the plague
but while money is important they have control of us. All of us. Globally.
No doubt British interests will be taken care of. The financial pantomime
will correct the value of the pound just as it over-inflated to devalue itself
Our economic elite are greedy and self-interested. Those socio-economics pervade our lives
We don't need to be working so hard. how to be free....
Jenni wrote:
out of curiosity why's this been binned?
'stop shopping' stuff is obviously bollocks but I don't understand why it's 'troublesome'...?
Rob Ray wrote:
Yeah I'd second that, seems a bit over-censorious like...
it's not locked though. i'm not really sure where else it belongs (it's not theory...). if a half-decent discussion emerges it can always be moved back somewhere more appropriate.
Whatever make you happy dear friend. The struggle has always been against the elite who had the money and had the power and indoctrinated all else to their means. If you take money out of the equation. What are you left with? Personal freedom. Cos you ain't gotta go to work anymore. Let the days roll into each other. Lose track of the systems supporting the economic agendas dictating your life. Forget Sunday nights. Have a Saturday every day. Then get normal with it.
Joseph K. wrote:
Jenni wrote:
out of curiosity why's this been binned?
'stop shopping' stuff is obviously bollocks but I don't understand why it's 'troublesome'...?Rob Ray wrote:
Yeah I'd second that, seems a bit over-censorious like...it's not locked though. i'm not really sure where else it belongs (it's not theory...). if a half-decent discussion emerges it can always be moved back somewhere more appropriate.
I binned it because it's flame-bait.
The Industrial revolution was supposed to make things easier. So why are we working so hard!
To buy stuff we don't need. that's going to break. becuase it's designed so we have to update it again.
Is possible to be an anarchist and a capitalist at the same time when economics are so closely tied to the politics.
Just wonder with regard to this previous thread..!
http://libcom.org/forums/libcommunity/things-buy-month-26062008
Fuck off, I thought this was a new thread I had missed, its this lunacy under a different title; is this not like the third different name this thread has had?? Footstep, you can change the title a billion times if you want, but your arguments are still complete crap.
I'm deadly serious. and disappointed not to have had a single honest response.
It's a serious question. If you buy into the system you buy into the finances and the lies
economic agendas are screwing your lives. 80% of the british population may as well be dead for the ammount of time they have to decide for themselves how to live their lives. and if you lot don't give a flying fuck about liberty and freedom then who the fuck does. point me in their direction and I'll gladly depart!
I think you have had honest responses, the problem's been that your posts have been very confused. The first one seemed to imply that buying things makes you a capitalist. Your second one mentioned 'sinister forces pulling the strings' (and that you avoid TV and newspapers, which seems a little weird). Your third one made it sound like dropping out was both a serious option for most of us and a politically significant act.
If you want to discuss incoherent psuedo-radical borderline conspiracy theories try Indymedia. If you want a serious discussion then do what Joseph K suggested, start with your definition of capitalism, and we can go from there.
Footstep wrote:
I'm deadly serious. and disappointed not to have had a single honest response.
We could say the same about you. Moreso. How about responding to this:
treeofjudas wrote:
How do you get your food, Footstep? How do you pay your rent? How do you use the commercial internet to preach to others about the evils of consumerism?
Also, frequently changing the thread title is a poor substitute for actual responses.
Realising capialism is economic slavery tying people to value systems, institutions and materialistic aspirations. That demands on my time, energy and finances go directly to benefit and elitist corporatocracy. I don't even feel a part of the equation that is my life much more.
This a zeitgeist related theory to which I am open-minded.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912&hl=en