But ...do adults actually follow fashion or are clothes just so badly made that they have holes within a few months anyway?
Course I just wear them holes and all but I think the desire not to be "unkempt" is more powerful than the desire to be fashionable. Even I find when I want a white shirt for some reason (last time was a few years ago) I need to buy one because a shirt will be grey if I wash it even once.
Notice that the ones complaining are doing so on evil corporation made products. How many people will live in domes with solar heat dipping locally grown organic tea (since coffee is an import that wastes sooo much fosil fuel)?
Nothing wrong with spending. But we have a duty to not be wasteful, and to spend money on things which deserve to be bought. There's just so much junk being pushed these days.
I noticed that too, where we go around advertising brands for free! Just wonder where we draw the line? I don't like all those huge brand names around peoples names to remind them about what is in. What to do about bands and music? I do enjoy wearing my Iron Maiden shirts, but besides that wear no cloths with noticeable brand names.
Cock sucking pseudo-intellectual rubbish. The people who complain about consumerism and capitalism are usually those who aren't "well off", then they blame their problems on the system, rather than themselves.
@strydom666 Now pretend for a moment that these people were "well off", would it make any difference? The point being made is important and needs to be dealt with somehow.
I worked as a sales attendant for three years, There´re more people addicted to fashion than anything else. i didn´t get used to seeing teenagers purchasing sun glasses worth 200 €.
Now they are out of idea..so look at now...they are just repeting old era fashion of
60's, 70's, 80's 90's......to make you want to buy something looks new.
I use recycled item and just wear whatever I like to wear. I even find many clothes with still price tag attached in my apartment trash room. Just because of one season off. They are famous brand name clothing,shoes, etc...it is so sad ..but good for me.
Yes - we've indeed accepted ourselves as happiness machines, where we believe our perceived 'happiness' comes from 'stuff & things' - so we stuff ourselves full of stuff not realizing that a consumer will NEVER be satiated, no matter what!
We all do this in some 'form or fashion' thus it's through realizing this part of ourselves that will enable us SEE, therefore STOP the continuation of such blindness, where we fail to take into consideration ALL the beings that are affected by our gluttony.
Perfect depiction here on how brainwashed we've allowed ourselves to become - consumption means to use something up until there's nothing left on it - it is time to stop and start living differently. It is possible with an Equal Money System
I prefer to find my worth in the Lord, not the sum total of my material crap (which is considerable). I guess that's the secret to life. If you want to be able to get something, you have to not care about obtaining it? *shrugs* I guess that's why you'll never see a Hearse pulling a U-haul. You can't take it with you when you're gone.
it seems they are brainwashing us... weird movie. It's important to consume to bust the economy but not for the reasons referred here... use credit card if you run out of money?!? is debt the way for consumerism?
Sheep people living sheep lives. Soulless empty materialistic mechanical beings. I am losing my patience with these sheep people making my life worse as a result of their ignorance and stupidity. Perhaps a mass execution is in order? We should lure all these people onto cruise ships with promises of free liquor and a trip to Hawaii to visit the worlds largest mall built in the center of Mauna Loa.
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Ironically, the creators of this video want you to consume their shitty book.
Just grow up and live your lives folks. Yes we're consumers but yes you do still have choices, your are not forced to consume, we all hate advertising and spam anyway, don't think you're being brainwashed, you're not.
This video is just another clever advertisement attempting to get you to buy someone else's crap by pretending that they're advocating not buying crap.
@bonfireofthebrands It also promotes themselves though, which in turn promotes their products, which is entirely hypocritical.
If their were any real meaning or belief behind the video then it would be on it's own account and completely isolated from promoting any products or brands. Particularly their own brand, "bonfire of the brands".
what an absolutely ignorant person you are... at least the video is advocating something worthwhile... rahter than marketing something like scientificall proven anti-aging creams.... or something frivolous,vain or superficial, which are words which i should label you with.
You call me ignorant yet make absolute assumptions of me like that? Come on sunshine, don't make yourself look too stupid.
One can not utilise something like the internet, a commodity you absolutely have to be a consumer to have, while making vague and generalised statements against consumption.
You sound like a zeitgeist conspiracy moron.
When did I suggest we all go out and buy millions of shoes?? Don't place words I haven't said into my mouth.
@Badhabitsjay There is no other product in the world that is less consumed then the internet dude ... everyone is actually puking the internet out . And no there is no internet from nike or mcdonalds either.
@meli13721 All I have done is argue that this video and it's creator come from a hypocritical standpoint, I haven't, not ONCE, argued against the actual points made in the video. Before lavishing your hate on someone I suggest you read their comments next time.
You can't throw around the word ignorant while demonstrating your own ignorance so fucking clearly.
too ignorant for words... yes why dont we all just go crazy and have a million pairs of shoes when our negihbours are dying of poverty... you ignorance is a crime...... almost murderous... you stupid stupid vain superficial person
@Badhabitsjay so you admit that they are right but feel resentment because you do all this stuff in this video and refuse to buy anything that proves your inadequateness.Hmmmm and we have a consuming WINNER!
@Badhabitsjay so you admit that they are right but feel resentment because you do all this stuff in this video and refuse to buy anything that proves your inadequateness.Hmmmm and we have a consuming WINNER! Dude your an alien from they live
really good! so that must be why most people are not too bright, not too curious, not too educated, not too interesting, usually lacking of culture, creativity, values and a true love for life, others and themselves! people are sad little consuming clones!
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@T3ckno93 What is stupid? The behavior that is being represented? Don t you think that the behavior being satirized is prevalent? I don t buy into any particular movement or politics but its obvious to me that the capitalist system relies on people buying shit they don t need.
@dervishmadwhirler However a fully realised resource based economy is designed to be the freest possible society, people 'control' themselves because they have unlimited access to education. An educated person knows the dynamic of society and therefore realises that selflessness benefits the individual infinitely more than selfishness. sorry for the long reply.
@dervishmadwhirler The transition from monetary to resource based economy will likely look a lot like fascism but personally i have no problem with fascism under rule of a philosophical elite, imo when fascism occurs under rule of self interested capitalists, like what is occurring in the western developed world at the moment, that's when ur in the shit.
@dervishmadwhirler What else is there? Jacque always goes on about how it's not a perfect system just much better than what we have. We probably won't see anything like it in the near future but on prejudice it's the 'sanest' next step for humanity. I don't know what you're view of Venus Project is but i know a lot of people think it's fascism.
@FloydManFloyd I think it's fascism, technocracy, communism, whatever you want to call it.
A control system, based upon technolgy, prescribing the way people are supposed to live; forcing people to participate,
My own ideas are much more drastic. My idea is to stop seeing people as the only thing in the world. Stop seeing Nature as a resource. Stop agriculture, technolgy and governmental control.
In Natural life, everything we possibly need is provided in exactly those quantities needed...
A system based upon using and distributing Natural resouces is bound to be a finite one.
Nature itself gives us all 'technolgy' we need to survive on Earth and die off at the necessary rate. The only way to sustain an ever larger population is by control and oppression. Just read 'Island, by huxley, or '1984' by Orwell, or watch the movie 'THX 1138' if you want to know what the VP would look like and how it would function.
@dervishmadwhirler People ought to just take in their place in Nature as not-very-important beings. Which we are; for the planet. The way we live now, we are the sinlge worst influence on the planet and the VP would not change that.
And, just seeing the godawful buildings and gadgets Jaques Fresco designed, I would rather die than live in a world like that. We are logically already going toward a similar state; central control and distribution of resources to those who submit to control..
@dervishmadwhirler I have never read 'island' but 1984 was written about a society which still used, indirectly, money and war as control and i'm fairly sure island was largely the same. that is not the venus project.
@FloydManFloyd You have never READ "island" but....are you sure that "island was Largely the same"? Wow, that sounds like something that a 40´s German Nazi would say behind a fire...
"Island? jus another 1984...burn it!" (Yep, "island" was plucibited in 1962...)
"Island" is totally different from "1984", in fact, "1984" is the perfect dystopia, and "island" is the perfect utopia..
Please, read "island"... i know, consume "a book", but...a book that worth it.
@thepeiuan lol after reading a bit about it on wiki it seems very intriguing and i'll definitely check it out. funny enough he says if he was able to write the book again he would 'offer the savage a third option' (whatever that means) then goes on to describe a society which actually sounds vaguely like a resource based economy. 'nazi would say behind a fire' lool :)
@FloydManFloyd what can i say? i see too much Family guy...xD
i hope you enjoy "island". "They" based their society in spiritually aspects, but without the "look away" of the New Age about the Science...The word would be "Buddhism".
"They" (is complicated because they aren´t sheeps, each individual follow his own path; so a few..) use Moksha (and others not), an entheogen.
Best education system, best use of recourses,...
But things go worst when "others" discover that "they" "have" Oil...
@dervishmadwhirler (because we could start to scientifically benefit our environment as opposed to take from it) Do u agree that as an organism, without technology, we are bound by the necessity of hunting for food and engaging in other fundamental human tasks? TVP is just, as it were, a way to more efficiently carry out those tasks. would it not be more liberating and environmentally less impacting, to develop technology to it's fullest?
@dervishmadwhirler unfortunately to transition into such a society people need to change their values from self interest (supported by current environment) to being generally well educated which, when you abolish money/scarcity, produces a person beneficial to society and therefore themselves. that will involve effective fascism. a fully realised resource based economy will be the freest and most environmentally friendly society
@dervishmadwhirler so do u believe, in a way, that we were created to exist on this earth as we are and that human advances in methods of exploiting earthly resources only distort the relationship between the human and the earth? What I believe is that if you abolished money and gave people unlimited access to education, that group of people will take the 'sanest' measures to preserve themselves and therefore their environment, that is what TVP is, not 'prescribing...'
Relative deprivation: No matter how much you have someone else has something that you want. You just need another fifty bucks on every pay check then you would be happy.
Just FUCK IT ALL! if you see a "Good Cosumer"...immediatly link him/her this vid...looök what it does! 65%-of it will change 30% will stay the same after a bad night and the last 5% will stop to think it out and after a week they choose their sides or slowly start to not be a good consumer...I say...the ones who stay the same have to be reeducated in groups not separately then they will recognise whats done is BAD FOR ALL!
So good!! Only the Brits could do such a tongue in cheek video with a great message. I'm so proud to be the daughter of an English woman right now. :)
This is the most wonderful system ever devised, nothing can be better! Consumerism is perfectly sustainable! Don't be fooled by this propaganda! Go back and enjoy your shopping experience!
@pavilionking06 Capitalism at it is best?. No, Capitalism at ITS best is when there is no force exerted used to prevent voluntary exchanged between two parties.
@pavilionking06 Capitalism at it is best?. No, Capitalism at ITS best is when there is no force exerted used to prevent voluntary exchanged between two parties.
Depends on who is reading it. They forgot to tell us that is also make more garbage for the third world... because we know that the third world needs thinks to fill out their country sites... and get the children busy...
They call you a consumer, because you consume, but you were indoctrinated and brainwashed to become their consumer. Your kids are their future consumers.
Do you like to be called a consumer or do you want to be called a citizen? It's up to you!
If you live in a western country and don't recognize luxury and over consumption you are being ignorant. If you buy more clothes than strictly necessary or throw away food after dinner that is over consumption. If you buy expensive brands of food and clothes that is luxury.
I noticed that once I stopped reading the gossip magazines, watching tv often, listening to commercials, and quit my job I don't have an urge or anxious feeling to spend. I'm able to walk into stores look around without feeling like crap b/c I didn't buy anything. It's a huge relief and it made me realize what I as a human being want from life not the store.
My soc class also made me see how much worse materialism has gotten in America.
this was hard to watch since my Intel CPU brand dum dum dum dum.... So I am now going to have to use Linux with an AMD cpu and view this at some other brand web site than youtube or facebook.
Too bad for the Mac users they love the Branding. LOL Hehe.
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Biased and not even trying to hide it. Cheap attempt to gain sympathies by putting a black unhappy looking girl into the clip. They completely forget who controls the market: it's the consumer! As long as there exist enough consumers for it, a brand will make profit. Time to grow up and to stop buying the products of companies you consider greedy capitalists.
Sure it isn't the market who controlls the consumer? Its the companies which makes profit from the consumers, The consumer dont earn anything from this.
The consumer also should get the last say in the issue, but ultimately it doesn't. The marketing makes some new stupid stuff up and puts it in display to show its availability and then some stupid but filthy rich John Doe starts buying. Some other not so stupidly rich John Doe II sees that John Doe buys it and feels the urge to also buy it, to have the same things rich people like John Doe have ( if to compensate for something or not, it matters not. )
i dont know who gave you the thumbs down? :S if any reader is smart enough will see this and get what they need from it, thats whats wrong with our country people are either too fucked up or just because they saw something they are complete activists and such, people have to start thinking for themselves, although i did like the video.
When I bought my computer I thought I would be happy. When just surfing the internet got boring I bought some computer games to make me happy. Well I bought so many games that I had to buy another hard drive. Well now when I am not home I miss my games. Do you think if I bought a laptop computer I would be happy?
It shows the consumist mentality right there. But I think that you did it on purpose. You wanted to simplify the consumist addiction.
Even if what you "told" is true. And if it is I am not judging. I also do it. I got stupidly addicted to downloading things I THINK I want and need but do not want nor need. I got a OCD case with downloads, so to "type".
The other day I was at work and was in the break room the tv was on and cnn was covering the news story that the yankees won and are now going to the world series. They were in a models sporting good store. There was a guy who was wearing nothing but yankee clothing from head to toe. The reporter asked him what he was doing there if he already had all the clothing he was wearing. He said I need to get more stuff I need a few more of these shirts. He was like a zombie. Pathetic really.
So true on so many levels. I stopped watching tv, because this kind of programming is happening all the time- commercials, sit-coms, music videos, local news--- it's all saying go out there and buy stuff. You're nothing unless you have this and that and that and this. Not true. We are everything and we don't need to buy stuff to prove it.
Fuck the American ruling class and their perpetual cycle of consumerism. Capitalism is the soil in which GREED grows. It is time for a revolution. It is time we overthrow these corporate overlords! Workers unite! We have nothing to lose but our chains!
What are you Vladimir Lenin or something? I'd rather live in a country where you have the opportunity to become rich and be anything you want, where free enterprise allows shitty companies to drive themselves into the ground w/o a taxpayer-wasting government bailout than your "lets all share the wealth, no one will have any hope of making ANYTHING of themselves" Marx/Engels Obamanation.
the problem with self sufficiency is that people would need to change too much and too many things that they are used to. And those kinds of changes take time and patience. Time that they do not have because, in a way ... is taken from them. And patience thay only rarely common people have. And you wouldn't want only some elite people ( so to speak ) to learn those things ... You want it to be common-- I guess.
this is great but it's missing fundamental aspects like ;how industrial consumer civilization is going to destroy all life on earth---think catastrophic man-made climate change.
Don't be a Slave. Stop trying to be perfect and just let go. Show yourself that you are a human being. Not some sheep posing as one! You are not the clothes you wear!!
WTF is a "slave" anyway. A slave is someone who does what he does not want to do. people "consume"cause what they consume benefits them some way. Anti consumerism is a kind of asceticism. its fighting your wants and desires and deliberately making life less pleasent. and to not do so is "slavery"? how? sounds like "Freedom is Slavery" And what makes you the expert on what a "Human" is. Arrogance.....
I never claimed to be a human expert. That would be absurd. Nor would I identify myself as an Anti consumer. It's obvious that one does not need all this shit. And what I mean by a "slave", I don't mean one who is forced to do work. I mean one who is dependent on something in order to live. I hope you understand. Beacause I have no interest in arguing with you.
Consumerism is more akin to an alcoholic addiction than slavery. So I suppose it could be considered enslavement of the mind, much like religion, or compliance with the family unit.
Although the framework of our society IS oriented around slavery. Even capitalists will eventually come to this conclusion.
This begs the question all of these campaigns dig at. Why do you enjoy these things. Dig Deeper. Keep asking Why.
What makes us (society) so quick to lash out half our income on a new trend. Obviously ration says that we must consume at certain levels. but currently it is through the freakin roof.
Seems like your brand is the exceptional "no-brand". Everything in the video is right and the best way a society works. You try to be different, against the "system", but the system is feeding you. You look like a kid in the adolocence. Tryin to be as different as you can. But like adolocence goes over. Your fight for being different will go over too. You will always consume certain things, and thats why you souldn't fight against it. In the end the "system" wins.
i disagree you don't have to follow fashion because you just take what you need to stay alive so now you know some things are not right i mean video and Mohamed rocks!!!1
Some people inject heroin to make themselves happy. But if people stopped doing drugs then the drug industry would collapse. What a shame.
You're full of pure ignorance if you think mass consumption / consumerism has no adverse effects. You probably think pollution and global warming are "dumb" and "bullshit" too.
You know what makes me happy? Not succumbing to corporate marketing schemes and not buying shit I don't need, just to appease a buying addiction.
But ...do adults actually follow fashion or are clothes just so badly made that they have holes within a few months anyway?
Course I just wear them holes and all but I think the desire not to be "unkempt" is more powerful than the desire to be fashionable. Even I find when I want a white shirt for some reason (last time was a few years ago) I need to buy one because a shirt will be grey if I wash it even once.
candistyx 2 weeks ago
Let's not just be good consumers but, empowered consumers!
BuyRayChubb 2 weeks ago
This video is full of great advice. The government should force TV stations to air this every hour or so as a public service announcement.
PunkDiesel65 1 month ago
Notice that the ones complaining are doing so on evil corporation made products. How many people will live in domes with solar heat dipping locally grown organic tea (since coffee is an import that wastes sooo much fosil fuel)?
Broaster07 1 month ago
That video actually made me want a McDonalds.
superpixelbrothers 1 month ago
begin being bought and sold as the fuel that feeds poison food to us and creates the need for medicine that kills us.
ImLooLoo 2 months ago
Bull shit all of it. This guy is clearly mental.
nkavmail 3 months ago
@nkavmail can u explain how you came up with that?
mrandisheh 1 month ago
Buy things you don't need with money you don't have for people you don't like.
Make sure they are made-in-China
AwakenedSword 3 months ago 6
I only buy gadgets carefully chosen by the functions and my actual needs, not the brand at all.
All of my clothes are chosen by it's quality AND my sense of beauty, price counts aswell, i buy cheaper ones ;)
But good video, also the media propagates only perfect physical people, that leads to mass unhappiness, that is fake-fulfilled with products.
Problem?
4il3 3 months ago
CAPS LOCK!
JustinZombieStopper 5 months ago
Nothing wrong with spending. But we have a duty to not be wasteful, and to spend money on things which deserve to be bought. There's just so much junk being pushed these days.
copperblade 6 months ago
It's soo hypnotizing... \((0_0))/
mssinatra 7 months ago
I noticed that too, where we go around advertising brands for free! Just wonder where we draw the line? I don't like all those huge brand names around peoples names to remind them about what is in. What to do about bands and music? I do enjoy wearing my Iron Maiden shirts, but besides that wear no cloths with noticeable brand names.
chavez302 7 months ago
Cock sucking pseudo-intellectual rubbish. The people who complain about consumerism and capitalism are usually those who aren't "well off", then they blame their problems on the system, rather than themselves.
strydom666 8 months ago
@strydom666 Now pretend for a moment that these people were "well off", would it make any difference? The point being made is important and needs to be dealt with somehow.
ofakar 7 months ago
I worked as a sales attendant for three years, There´re more people addicted to fashion than anything else. i didn´t get used to seeing teenagers purchasing sun glasses worth 200 €.
krause79 9 months ago 11
Now they are out of idea..so look at now...they are just repeting old era fashion of
60's, 70's, 80's 90's......to make you want to buy something looks new.
I use recycled item and just wear whatever I like to wear. I even find many clothes with still price tag attached in my apartment trash room. Just because of one season off. They are famous brand name clothing,shoes, etc...it is so sad ..but good for me.
planetcoco 9 months ago
Yes - we've indeed accepted ourselves as happiness machines, where we believe our perceived 'happiness' comes from 'stuff & things' - so we stuff ourselves full of stuff not realizing that a consumer will NEVER be satiated, no matter what!
We all do this in some 'form or fashion' thus it's through realizing this part of ourselves that will enable us SEE, therefore STOP the continuation of such blindness, where we fail to take into consideration ALL the beings that are affected by our gluttony.
LLCraver 9 months ago 2
Perfect depiction here on how brainwashed we've allowed ourselves to become - consumption means to use something up until there's nothing left on it - it is time to stop and start living differently. It is possible with an Equal Money System
annabrixthomsen 9 months ago 4
I prefer to find my worth in the Lord, not the sum total of my material crap (which is considerable). I guess that's the secret to life. If you want to be able to get something, you have to not care about obtaining it? *shrugs* I guess that's why you'll never see a Hearse pulling a U-haul. You can't take it with you when you're gone.
shawnangie1 9 months ago
it seems they are brainwashing us... weird movie. It's important to consume to bust the economy but not for the reasons referred here... use credit card if you run out of money?!? is debt the way for consumerism?
dfcbrg 9 months ago
I saw this one on my english class !
shecantam3rican 10 months ago
28 are good consumers XD
mujarik 10 months ago
im not a good consumer
Aprilshowersss 10 months ago
dude they live play that double standard of assumption play off also...prove other wise instead of running in circles in a conversation.
slickdickdafoola 11 months ago
This video is beyond the TRUTH!
Good work!
revemupman 11 months ago
lol. you're worth it!
shawnTVP 11 months ago
Since I stopped watching TV and buy magazines..about 3 years now or so, I consume far less...its astonishing the way marketing can brain wash you!!
Morrantiel 1 year ago
Zeitgeist: Moving Forward
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afonsop 1 year ago 3
Sheep people living sheep lives. Soulless empty materialistic mechanical beings. I am losing my patience with these sheep people making my life worse as a result of their ignorance and stupidity. Perhaps a mass execution is in order? We should lure all these people onto cruise ships with promises of free liquor and a trip to Hawaii to visit the worlds largest mall built in the center of Mauna Loa.
Who's with me?
mellowmark1 1 year ago
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Ironically, the creators of this video want you to consume their shitty book.
Just grow up and live your lives folks. Yes we're consumers but yes you do still have choices, your are not forced to consume, we all hate advertising and spam anyway, don't think you're being brainwashed, you're not.
This video is just another clever advertisement attempting to get you to buy someone else's crap by pretending that they're advocating not buying crap.
Badhabitsjay 1 year ago
@Badhabitsjay Read the blurb to this video carefully - it was shot to promote BUY NOTHING DAY.
bonfireofthebrands 1 year ago 18
@bonfireofthebrands It also promotes themselves though, which in turn promotes their products, which is entirely hypocritical.
If their were any real meaning or belief behind the video then it would be on it's own account and completely isolated from promoting any products or brands. Particularly their own brand, "bonfire of the brands".
It's plain ridiculous.
Badhabitsjay 1 year ago
Shut up and adjust to your corporate slave state. Resistance is futile. Now get in line, worker drone.
theFEMAcampESCAPEE 1 year ago 4
@bonfireofthebrands says nothing about buy nothing day in blurb.
on website does mention a book though.
sounds like commentor is correct.
tobiosnmakky 8 months ago
@bonfireofthebrands Still, if the authors ate their own dogfood, this book should be a free download with a copyleft license.
ArkBlitz 2 months ago
@Badhabits
what an absolutely ignorant person you are... at least the video is advocating something worthwhile... rahter than marketing something like scientificall proven anti-aging creams.... or something frivolous,vain or superficial, which are words which i should label you with.
meli13721 1 year ago
@meli13721 "frivolous,vain or superficial"
You call me ignorant yet make absolute assumptions of me like that? Come on sunshine, don't make yourself look too stupid.
One can not utilise something like the internet, a commodity you absolutely have to be a consumer to have, while making vague and generalised statements against consumption.
You sound like a zeitgeist conspiracy moron.
When did I suggest we all go out and buy millions of shoes?? Don't place words I haven't said into my mouth.
Badhabitsjay 1 year ago
@Badhabitsjay There is no other product in the world that is less consumed then the internet dude ... everyone is actually puking the internet out . And no there is no internet from nike or mcdonalds either.
platonicx 10 months ago
@meli13721 All I have done is argue that this video and it's creator come from a hypocritical standpoint, I haven't, not ONCE, argued against the actual points made in the video. Before lavishing your hate on someone I suggest you read their comments next time.
You can't throw around the word ignorant while demonstrating your own ignorance so fucking clearly.
Badhabitsjay 1 year ago
@Badhabits
too ignorant for words... yes why dont we all just go crazy and have a million pairs of shoes when our negihbours are dying of poverty... you ignorance is a crime...... almost murderous... you stupid stupid vain superficial person
meli13721 1 year ago
@Badhabitsjay so you admit that they are right but feel resentment because you do all this stuff in this video and refuse to buy anything that proves your inadequateness.Hmmmm and we have a consuming WINNER!
slickdickdafoola 11 months ago
@slickdickdafoola My comment: Fact. Fact. Fact
Your comment: Assumption. Assumption. Assumption
Aslo, lrn 2 spek engrish.
Badhabitsjay 11 months ago
@Badhabitsjay so you admit that they are right but feel resentment because you do all this stuff in this video and refuse to buy anything that proves your inadequateness.Hmmmm and we have a consuming WINNER! Dude your an alien from they live
slickdickdafoola 11 months ago
@Badhabitsjay "don't think you're being brainwashed, you're not" .. now that's a contradicting statement in itself.
ofakar 7 months ago
really good! so that must be why most people are not too bright, not too curious, not too educated, not too interesting, usually lacking of culture, creativity, values and a true love for life, others and themselves! people are sad little consuming clones!
NAIVADA 1 year ago 3
@NAIVADA Maybe you're just a sad little fucking misantrophist.
LB030377 10 months ago
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morgantobfr 1 year ago
brilliant
slaughterpuss 1 year ago
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lspmd2 1 year ago
I have never seen propaganda in such a pure form. It is impressive. Stupid, but impressive.
T3ckno93 1 year ago
@T3ckno93 It is obviously satirical dude...
vRennas 1 year ago
@T3ckno93 What is stupid? The behavior that is being represented? Don t you think that the behavior being satirized is prevalent? I don t buy into any particular movement or politics but its obvious to me that the capitalist system relies on people buying shit they don t need.
oneloveT2 1 year ago
ultimately this is propaganda at its greatest form of function. just read other comments to compare.
rashinalleyes 1 year ago
borrowing money is more encouraged than this video proposes...well in america anyway
MartianTimeTrvlR 1 year ago
like fcuk....
altfseven 1 year ago
WORK, BUY, CONSUME, DIE
multiversedancer 1 year ago
anyone interested in moving beyond the capitalist system please look into The Venus Project and 'Zeitgeist Addendum' film.
FloydManFloyd 1 year ago 3
@FloydManFloyd Problem is, they offer nothing but yet another system of control...
dervishmadwhirler 1 year ago
@dervishmadwhirler However a fully realised resource based economy is designed to be the freest possible society, people 'control' themselves because they have unlimited access to education. An educated person knows the dynamic of society and therefore realises that selflessness benefits the individual infinitely more than selfishness. sorry for the long reply.
FloydManFloyd 1 year ago
@dervishmadwhirler The transition from monetary to resource based economy will likely look a lot like fascism but personally i have no problem with fascism under rule of a philosophical elite, imo when fascism occurs under rule of self interested capitalists, like what is occurring in the western developed world at the moment, that's when ur in the shit.
FloydManFloyd 1 year ago
@dervishmadwhirler What else is there? Jacque always goes on about how it's not a perfect system just much better than what we have. We probably won't see anything like it in the near future but on prejudice it's the 'sanest' next step for humanity. I don't know what you're view of Venus Project is but i know a lot of people think it's fascism.
FloydManFloyd 1 year ago
@FloydManFloyd I think it's fascism, technocracy, communism, whatever you want to call it.
A control system, based upon technolgy, prescribing the way people are supposed to live; forcing people to participate,
My own ideas are much more drastic. My idea is to stop seeing people as the only thing in the world. Stop seeing Nature as a resource. Stop agriculture, technolgy and governmental control.
In Natural life, everything we possibly need is provided in exactly those quantities needed...
dervishmadwhirler 1 year ago
@dervishmadwhirler ...we need to stop disrupting Nature for our needs.
A system based upon using and distributing Natural resouces is bound to be a finite one.
Nature itself gives us all 'technolgy' we need to survive on Earth and die off at the necessary rate. The only way to sustain an ever larger population is by control and oppression. Just read 'Island, by huxley, or '1984' by Orwell, or watch the movie 'THX 1138' if you want to know what the VP would look like and how it would function.
dervishmadwhirler 1 year ago
@dervishmadwhirler People ought to just take in their place in Nature as not-very-important beings. Which we are; for the planet. The way we live now, we are the sinlge worst influence on the planet and the VP would not change that.
And, just seeing the godawful buildings and gadgets Jaques Fresco designed, I would rather die than live in a world like that. We are logically already going toward a similar state; central control and distribution of resources to those who submit to control..
dervishmadwhirler 1 year ago
@dervishmadwhirler I have never read 'island' but 1984 was written about a society which still used, indirectly, money and war as control and i'm fairly sure island was largely the same. that is not the venus project.
FloydManFloyd 1 year ago
@FloydManFloyd You have never READ "island" but....are you sure that "island was Largely the same"? Wow, that sounds like something that a 40´s German Nazi would say behind a fire...
"Island? jus another 1984...burn it!" (Yep, "island" was plucibited in 1962...)
"Island" is totally different from "1984", in fact, "1984" is the perfect dystopia, and "island" is the perfect utopia..
Please, read "island"... i know, consume "a book", but...a book that worth it.
(And i will learn english)
thepeiuan 1 year ago
@thepeiuan lol after reading a bit about it on wiki it seems very intriguing and i'll definitely check it out. funny enough he says if he was able to write the book again he would 'offer the savage a third option' (whatever that means) then goes on to describe a society which actually sounds vaguely like a resource based economy. 'nazi would say behind a fire' lool :)
FloydManFloyd 1 year ago
@FloydManFloyd what can i say? i see too much Family guy...xD
i hope you enjoy "island". "They" based their society in spiritually aspects, but without the "look away" of the New Age about the Science...The word would be "Buddhism".
"They" (is complicated because they aren´t sheeps, each individual follow his own path; so a few..) use Moksha (and others not), an entheogen.
Best education system, best use of recourses,...
But things go worst when "others" discover that "they" "have" Oil...
thepeiuan 1 year ago
@dervishmadwhirler (because we could start to scientifically benefit our environment as opposed to take from it) Do u agree that as an organism, without technology, we are bound by the necessity of hunting for food and engaging in other fundamental human tasks? TVP is just, as it were, a way to more efficiently carry out those tasks. would it not be more liberating and environmentally less impacting, to develop technology to it's fullest?
FloydManFloyd 1 year ago
@dervishmadwhirler unfortunately to transition into such a society people need to change their values from self interest (supported by current environment) to being generally well educated which, when you abolish money/scarcity, produces a person beneficial to society and therefore themselves. that will involve effective fascism. a fully realised resource based economy will be the freest and most environmentally friendly society
FloydManFloyd 1 year ago
@dervishmadwhirler so do u believe, in a way, that we were created to exist on this earth as we are and that human advances in methods of exploiting earthly resources only distort the relationship between the human and the earth? What I believe is that if you abolished money and gave people unlimited access to education, that group of people will take the 'sanest' measures to preserve themselves and therefore their environment, that is what TVP is, not 'prescribing...'
FloydManFloyd 1 year ago
Relative deprivation: No matter how much you have someone else has something that you want. You just need another fifty bucks on every pay check then you would be happy.
Slavestorms 1 year ago
@Slavestorms Why do you want to have that thing? Does having that thing make you happy?
concoursboy 1 year ago
Just FUCK IT ALL! if you see a "Good Cosumer"...immediatly link him/her this vid...looök what it does! 65%-of it will change 30% will stay the same after a bad night and the last 5% will stop to think it out and after a week they choose their sides or slowly start to not be a good consumer...I say...the ones who stay the same have to be reeducated in groups not separately then they will recognise whats done is BAD FOR ALL!
MartinPlanner2 1 year ago
DONT THINK! CONSUME!!!
Mrdeluca666 1 year ago 5
So good!! Only the Brits could do such a tongue in cheek video with a great message. I'm so proud to be the daughter of an English woman right now. :)
dawntripp1974 1 year ago 4
Eshhhh.....city folk.
CanadiaNecro1 1 year ago
WOW!! borrow money so you don't fall behind ... speechless ...
FUCK FASHION
yoelgede 1 year ago 21
This is the most wonderful system ever devised, nothing can be better! Consumerism is perfectly sustainable! Don't be fooled by this propaganda! Go back and enjoy your shopping experience!
VOLightPortal 1 year ago
@VOLightPortal Omg yeah lets spend money we dont have on useless shit we dont need some slave child in china made.
You know why things like the holocaust happen? Because the world is full of "good consumers"
GoodyWillPwnJ00 1 year ago 3
It's capitalism at it's best. =)
pavilionking06 1 year ago
@pavilionking06 Capitalism at it is best?. No, Capitalism at ITS best is when there is no force exerted used to prevent voluntary exchanged between two parties.
HerrSchenkel 1 year ago
@pavilionking06 Capitalism at it is best?. No, Capitalism at ITS best is when there is no force exerted used to prevent voluntary exchanged between two parties.
HerrSchenkel 1 year ago
Greed.
HeatherOfOz 1 year ago
I feel a slight resemblance to Orwell's 1984 novel
drberecz 1 year ago 3
@drberecz is that because you recognize this
as complete bullskit and propaganda.?
rashinalleyes 1 year ago
It is a damaging ad. Full of false reasoning!!!!!
habte21 1 year ago
@habte21
Depends on who is reading it. They forgot to tell us that is also make more garbage for the third world... because we know that the third world needs thinks to fill out their country sites... and get the children busy...
themillionchildren 1 year ago
live consume shit and die
efekten 1 year ago 2
You dont have to be a communist or anything to agree with this. I'm a capitalist, but the way the system works now is fucked up
libbern 1 year ago 3
They call you a consumer, because you consume, but you were indoctrinated and brainwashed to become their consumer. Your kids are their future consumers.
Do you like to be called a consumer or do you want to be called a citizen? It's up to you!
worIdcitizen 1 year ago 4
Stop consuming, watching tv/radio/internet all the time and become more "here now".
mindcux 1 year ago
If I roll my eyes any harder at this video my eyes are going to fall out of my head. Is this really what socialists are most offended by?
ZombieX13 1 year ago
Consume, but consume the right things.
blackman666ful 1 year ago
CONSUME! Chanel! Nike! Coca Cola! BRAIIIINS!!!!!!
femmeriotgrrrl 1 year ago 3
Holy shit,fuckin' brain wash.
bellci 1 year ago
Yeaaah they've got Banksy's book! :D
naurito 1 year ago
Great video!
tehcyclo 1 year ago
I'm suprised they didn't add pre-recroded laughter to the video.
MrMonetaryslave 1 year ago
I laughed throughout!
MrBiggz902 1 year ago
its brain wash...
paulinet96 1 year ago
Fantastic video, wake up people !
martynhealer 1 year ago 5
i love consumers cause i sell stuff :)
purp24s 1 year ago 3
this is deep. great work
angelicmshakes 2 years ago 4
holy shit this is creepy
Rejexted 2 years ago
this makes a lot of sence we must keep our economy so let us be a good consumers lads :)
DEStrukcionierius 2 years ago
are you being serious?
imthiskid246 2 years ago
@imthiskid246 you kiddin? It's OBVIOUSLY a critic to consumism
naurito 1 year ago
yeah i was responding to some idiot who didn't "get" it, but youtube fucked up.
i wasn't actually asking if they meant to do that.
you get what im sayin?
imthiskid246 1 year ago
Na całe szczęście 95% ludzi na świecie żyje w krajach gdzie konsumpcjonizm nie jest narodową religią.
kokolorum 2 years ago
The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything. Albert Einstein.
The slogans of Newspeak are, War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, and Ignorance is Strength. George Orwell.
Google: IndieGoGo Can Bush Be Prosecuted? & Zeitgeist - The Movie
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Jiddu Krishnamurti.
Wiki Sheeple. FCUK Obamageddon. FCUK Obamastan.
MaSteRKuSH010 2 years ago
good stuff!
Santamariacastro 2 years ago 2
"AS NICE AS OUR LUXURY LIFESTYLES ARE"
What luxury lifestyles?
"And what overconsumption?"
EarthaKit2 2 years ago
If you live in a western country and don't recognize luxury and over consumption you are being ignorant. If you buy more clothes than strictly necessary or throw away food after dinner that is over consumption. If you buy expensive brands of food and clothes that is luxury.
DimmDevil 2 years ago
great job!
greenhell666 2 years ago
I noticed that once I stopped reading the gossip magazines, watching tv often, listening to commercials, and quit my job I don't have an urge or anxious feeling to spend. I'm able to walk into stores look around without feeling like crap b/c I didn't buy anything. It's a huge relief and it made me realize what I as a human being want from life not the store.
My soc class also made me see how much worse materialism has gotten in America.
JessPk212 2 years ago 61
@JessPk212
Great! I wish there were more people like you.
walterzabel08 1 year ago
@JessPk212 I cant believe anyone actually lives like that, but congratulations. More people should realise this.
sacredgeometry 1 year ago
this reminds me of THX1338
jmm1233 2 years ago 2
this was hard to watch since my Intel CPU brand dum dum dum dum.... So I am now going to have to use Linux with an AMD cpu and view this at some other brand web site than youtube or facebook.
Too bad for the Mac users they love the Branding. LOL Hehe.
AntiMusick 2 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
Biased and not even trying to hide it. Cheap attempt to gain sympathies by putting a black unhappy looking girl into the clip. They completely forget who controls the market: it's the consumer! As long as there exist enough consumers for it, a brand will make profit. Time to grow up and to stop buying the products of companies you consider greedy capitalists.
challengeyourbeliefs 2 years ago
Sure it isn't the market who controlls the consumer? Its the companies which makes profit from the consumers, The consumer dont earn anything from this.
Klimattomte 2 years ago
The consumer also should get the last say in the issue, but ultimately it doesn't. The marketing makes some new stupid stuff up and puts it in display to show its availability and then some stupid but filthy rich John Doe starts buying. Some other not so stupidly rich John Doe II sees that John Doe buys it and feels the urge to also buy it, to have the same things rich people like John Doe have ( if to compensate for something or not, it matters not. )
rpaslux 2 years ago
wow, the whole video went miles over your head
challengeyourbeliefs.
DesmoPilot2 2 years ago 2
i dont know who gave you the thumbs down? :S if any reader is smart enough will see this and get what they need from it, thats whats wrong with our country people are either too fucked up or just because they saw something they are complete activists and such, people have to start thinking for themselves, although i did like the video.
felio182 2 years ago
When I bought my computer I thought I would be happy. When just surfing the internet got boring I bought some computer games to make me happy. Well I bought so many games that I had to buy another hard drive. Well now when I am not home I miss my games. Do you think if I bought a laptop computer I would be happy?
paultheuglydog 2 years ago 6
It shows the consumist mentality right there. But I think that you did it on purpose. You wanted to simplify the consumist addiction.
Even if what you "told" is true. And if it is I am not judging. I also do it. I got stupidly addicted to downloading things I THINK I want and need but do not want nor need. I got a OCD case with downloads, so to "type".
rpaslux 2 years ago
you THINK they were "doing that on purpose?"
imthiskid246 2 years ago
The other day I was at work and was in the break room the tv was on and cnn was covering the news story that the yankees won and are now going to the world series. They were in a models sporting good store. There was a guy who was wearing nothing but yankee clothing from head to toe. The reporter asked him what he was doing there if he already had all the clothing he was wearing. He said I need to get more stuff I need a few more of these shirts. He was like a zombie. Pathetic really.
Louis69 2 years ago 3
Thanks for putting this together - it consolidates a lot of things bubbling under the surface. Big Up
Skateparkpages 2 years ago
this is great
PS: I'm in love with the girl of the video, I wanna consume her :P
GonoManiax 2 years ago 4
So true on so many levels. I stopped watching tv, because this kind of programming is happening all the time- commercials, sit-coms, music videos, local news--- it's all saying go out there and buy stuff. You're nothing unless you have this and that and that and this. Not true. We are everything and we don't need to buy stuff to prove it.
lizzzphoto 2 years ago 3
Fuck the American ruling class and their perpetual cycle of consumerism. Capitalism is the soil in which GREED grows. It is time for a revolution. It is time we overthrow these corporate overlords! Workers unite! We have nothing to lose but our chains!
Butternife83 2 years ago
What are you Vladimir Lenin or something? I'd rather live in a country where you have the opportunity to become rich and be anything you want, where free enterprise allows shitty companies to drive themselves into the ground w/o a taxpayer-wasting government bailout than your "lets all share the wealth, no one will have any hope of making ANYTHING of themselves" Marx/Engels Obamanation.
pdow52 2 years ago
i can tell many of you sheeple have been brain washed as a mother fucker!.
fuckedupsickfuckboy 2 years ago
Self sufficiency is key to set us free from government and corporate reliance.
silversobe 2 years ago 2
the problem with self sufficiency is that people would need to change too much and too many things that they are used to. And those kinds of changes take time and patience. Time that they do not have because, in a way ... is taken from them. And patience thay only rarely common people have. And you wouldn't want only some elite people ( so to speak ) to learn those things ... You want it to be common-- I guess.
rpaslux 2 years ago 4
Consume! Consume! Consume!
Work, shop, sleep,
Work, shop, sleep,
Work, shop, sleep,
Work, shop, sleep,
Work, shop, Party!, sleep,
Shop, party, sleep,
shop, sleep.
Week 2: ...
I will shop until the end of the world!
Klimattomte 2 years ago 30
@Klimattomte It's funny how, at a time, I thought you were saying "Sheep"...Funny, huh? :P
mrlizard888 1 year ago
Consumerism is the result of a society dependent on debt. Exploited by the few who gained control of the guns.
ufee 2 years ago 6
fuck
you
useless piece of shit
yoninja1 2 years ago
this is great but it's missing fundamental aspects like ;how industrial consumer civilization is going to destroy all life on earth---think catastrophic man-made climate change.
BenjaminLaird 2 years ago
Totally had. "The more you consume, the more you can recycle!"
dssnider123 2 years ago
Nice one.
RelentlessFreakshow 2 years ago
This video illustrates how society has become the twisted little sister!
desertjournalonline 2 years ago
You are not hungry,
But Mac Donald's looks Yummy
Mr Mac Donald's needs your money
You need to be Hungry even if you are not -It's you Duty-
You don't even in need to cook your food as long as you can make a delivery -It's you Duty-
Forget about those who are dying from starvation , Drop one tear and blame the others
They don't need Potatoes as long as you need Lay's ® Chips -It's you Duty- b/c you are slave.
HOOOOOOOH :-o
Qaswaraah 2 years ago 3
I LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT FUCKING LOVE IT.... NOw I WILL ALWAYS OCNSUME EVERYTHING I CAN :)
Playfran 2 years ago
Good for the environment " The more you consume, the more you can recycle"
Recrutista 2 years ago
Yeah Banksy!
Great vid.
doghairshirt 2 years ago
haha yah i myself have consumed that book.
Rumplefrumple 2 years ago
What a brainwash! This seems like a movie from Dharma's Iniciative (LOST). If only we were robots..
soniasilva 2 years ago
you obviously dont get it...
schronka 2 years ago 2
Consuming banksy's book @ 3:40
haha , nice message.
riotforthepunx 2 years ago
Don't be a Slave. Stop trying to be perfect and just let go. Show yourself that you are a human being. Not some sheep posing as one! You are not the clothes you wear!!
DoomGenerationP 2 years ago 6
WTF is a "slave" anyway. A slave is someone who does what he does not want to do. people "consume"cause what they consume benefits them some way. Anti consumerism is a kind of asceticism. its fighting your wants and desires and deliberately making life less pleasent. and to not do so is "slavery"? how? sounds like "Freedom is Slavery" And what makes you the expert on what a "Human" is. Arrogance.....
shootthemessenger33 2 years ago
I never claimed to be a human expert. That would be absurd. Nor would I identify myself as an Anti consumer. It's obvious that one does not need all this shit. And what I mean by a "slave", I don't mean one who is forced to do work. I mean one who is dependent on something in order to live. I hope you understand. Beacause I have no interest in arguing with you.
DoomGenerationP 2 years ago
Consumerism is more akin to an alcoholic addiction than slavery. So I suppose it could be considered enslavement of the mind, much like religion, or compliance with the family unit.
Although the framework of our society IS oriented around slavery. Even capitalists will eventually come to this conclusion.
ufee 2 years ago 3
I never excluded capitalists out of the picture. There more bigger slaves then anyone else.
DoomGenerationP 2 years ago
they're only slaves in that they're slave to their role of master
this doesn't really inspire much sympathy relative to everyone else.
mistarcraw 2 years ago
This begs the question all of these campaigns dig at. Why do you enjoy these things. Dig Deeper. Keep asking Why.
What makes us (society) so quick to lash out half our income on a new trend. Obviously ration says that we must consume at certain levels. but currently it is through the freakin roof.
EarthNsky17 2 years ago
Seems like your brand is the exceptional "no-brand". Everything in the video is right and the best way a society works. You try to be different, against the "system", but the system is feeding you. You look like a kid in the adolocence. Tryin to be as different as you can. But like adolocence goes over. Your fight for being different will go over too. You will always consume certain things, and thats why you souldn't fight against it. In the end the "system" wins.
dorianca 2 years ago
Exceptional video!
creepiestdani 2 years ago
i disagree you don't have to follow fashion because you just take what you need to stay alive so now you know some things are not right i mean video and Mohamed rocks!!!1
TheMoe234 2 years ago
the people should look more unlucky to make the message clear for everbody maybe.....good video
SuddenInspire 2 years ago
this is one of the best videos ive seen in a while...damn good
ronc310 2 years ago 3
Some people inject heroin to make themselves happy. But if people stopped doing drugs then the drug industry would collapse. What a shame.
You're full of pure ignorance if you think mass consumption / consumerism has no adverse effects. You probably think pollution and global warming are "dumb" and "bullshit" too.
You know what makes me happy? Not succumbing to corporate marketing schemes and not buying shit I don't need, just to appease a buying addiction.
r0manyk 2 years ago 3
Should have shown cars and gas.
mynalee 2 years ago
Brilliant, this video helps disrobe our culture and show it for it's Huxley-esque 'Brave New World' character that it truly has.
While we are obsessed with our possessions, we'll never really stand up for or against anything.
mrfilanges 2 years ago 5
Excellent, message!
phfrankh 2 years ago 3
This is brilliant. If you think it is dumb, than you're probably a good consumer.
stevengodkin 2 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
anticonsumerism is really dumb
Frances3654 2 years ago
why's that?
r0manyk 2 years ago