#cunsumerism

[musicvideomaniac]

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Lauryn Hill - Consumerism

Genre: alternative hip-hop / Year: 2013

Directed by: Ms. Lauryn Hill & Jon Casey

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If you are receiving this wake up call, you are using a computer. Probably it's even one of those shiny new pieces of cutting-edge technology? The latest version, even better than the last one...? Be that as it may: It's time to talk a little about a greed our society has agreed upon: Consumerism. To do so, we invited Liz Hosken, co-founder of the Gaia foundation, to the Liminal Village where she will speak about Why The Tech Dream Is Becoming A Nightmare.

[briannaisuntitledatpresstime]

We can all handle being disliked now and then, because there’s such an infinitely big pool of potential likers. But to expose your whole self, not just the likable surface, and to have it rejected, can be catastrophically painful. The prospect of pain generally, the pain of loss, of breakup, of death, is what makes it so tempting to avoid love and stay safely in the world of liking. And yet pain hurts but it doesn’t kill. When you consider the alternative — an anesthetized dream of self-sufficiency, abetted by technology — pain emerges as the natural product and natural indicator of being alive in a resistant world. To go through a life painlessly is to have not lived. Even just to say to yourself, 'Oh, I’ll get to that love and pain stuff later, maybe in my 30s' is to consign yourself to 10 years of merely taking up space on the planet and burning up its resources. Of being (and I mean this in the most damning sense of the word) a consumer.

Jonathan Franzen, "Liking Is for Cowards. Go for What Hurts."; The New York Times; May 28th, 2011.