John Zerzan on Consumerism

A segment i took from the documentary Terrorized Into Being Consumers . John Zerzan sums up the futility of consumerism......Work to buy then work to buy more and so on and on...................Living a life just to buy and consume, then throw away and work to buy some more..............to what end?

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[PObserver]

That's where we are today. Smoking cannabis and getting by day to day exploiting the resources and labor of the non-Western countries. Driving around aimlessly caught up in a game whose only reward you cannot take with you when you die. I'm really depressed by this system. I know Zerzan doesn't approve of language, art or agriculture, but I could really do without almost all modern conveniences and get by with books and a simple farm. Too bad that's unsustainable now.

[DazzTz]

its true we need to clear alot of the junk we have in our lives that has been forced upon us.....working jobs we hate to buy stuff we dont need......its insanity....!!!

[munkyusm]

@PObserver You're still not understanding how a true free market works. There would be a sound currency so the poor could actually save. There would be no ip laws, so people could not become billionaires. There would be no massive corporations. Prices would forever be dropping to the lowest possible rate. The average citizen would be a millionaire in this environment by the time they retired.

[PObserver]

@munkyusm No, I'm just pointing out it's continued by those who feel there isn't any slavery in the world. Yeah children work but the point is that there is exploitation. Your example of a family farm is very different from a factory and to merely survive. The point is, government or no, I don't trust those who control wealth in capitalist societies.

[munkyusm]

@PObserver Child labor? You do realize children have been working for the past 80,000 years right? Unless you have an advanced economy where you don't need their help, children will work on a farm etc. Slavery spanning thousands of years? Are you fucking kidding me? This was ALWAYS facilitated by the state. And calling these things a western phenomenon? Complete absurdity.

[PObserver]

@munkyusm Looking back I'm reminded of when there was less government intervention, and I think about the looms, the child miners and slavery spanning thousands of years. All of this stuff still exists and is still financed by Western money.

[munkyusm]

@PObserver A free market can't exist when there's a government. You're correct, as long as there is a government, cronyism rules the roost. But look back, the evidence is obvious...the less government intervention in the economy, the better. Imagine no intellectual property laws, no such thing as corporations, and no such thing as a federal reserve. Only individuals cooperatively trading with each other without any government coercion.

[PObserver]

@munkyusm How is it not a free market? What would a free market look like? All markets inevitably become like what we have now. Crony and for itself.

[munkyusm]

@PObserver Whoa, wait a minute...you're not calling what we have now a free market are you? This is state capitalism - only slightly less centrally planned than China.

[PObserver]

@munkyusm I don't know where you live but where I do, it's all suburbs and strip malls. When it gets overrun with "undesirables" it branches out even further, like urban sprawl is a majesty to behold. Its reasons are entirely economic, its method inefficient.

[munkyusm]

@PObserver Is this sarcasm? Free markets truly do care about the environment. If you don't believe me, go out to the country and look around. There's nothing but people owning land and keeping their property clean for the most part. You don't see many people clear cutting their land and laughing hysterically while wearing top hats and monocles. This only happens in the current situation, where government takes land and gives/sells it to business.

[PObserver]

@munkyusm Well it's good to see that deregulation and a free market really has the interests of environmental preservation at heart...