We function in a pack mentality. This is our tribe. And this is how we are exploited - sold a bill of goods and a household of products.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
What we buy, and pay for, is part of ourselves.
In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.
Every human being has to feel a part of a tribe. It's programmed into us. And you have to feel that you're contributing to something.
We are so conformist; nobody is thinking. We are all sucking up stuff; we have been trained to be consumers, and we are all consuming far too much.
Social struggles have been taking place throughout millennia, since human beings, by resorting to wars, were able to take hold of a surplus production to satisfy the essential needs of life.
We have allowed ourselves to be defined by our consumption instead of by our ability to move beyond it.
Our power creates collective production in the service of the people and the revolution, destroys exploiting production, transforms individualistic producers into producers integrated into the collectivity.
By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour; and they may be multiplied, not in one country alone, but in many, almost without any assignable limit, if we are disposed to bestow the labour necessary to obtain them.
We live in a society where everything's packaged.
I have an eccentric view on commodities not necessarily shared by my colleagues - or by almost anybody. And that is, we're running out of everything.
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