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Category Archives: Money
A MISGUIDED BUT COMMON IDEA ABOUT DEMOCRACY, THE FIFTEEN MINUTES OF FAME IN AMERICA, AND TO KNOW YOURSELF.
“IN THE FUTURE EVERYBODY WILL BE WORLD FAMOUS FOR 15 MINUTES. ” ANDY WARHOL THE NATIONAL DREAM In the United States of America everybody is entitled to become famous, rich, successful, popular, even infamously, if its necessary, by … Continue reading
Posted in Arete, Carl. G. Jung, Celebrity, Counsciousness, Critical Thinking, Cultural Attitudes, Democracy, Dreams, Fame, Illusions, Know Thyself, Meritocracy, Money, Personal Story, Self, Success, Uncategorized, Wisdom
Tagged Andy Warhol, Democracy Vs Meritocracy, Dreamings, Fame And Fortune, Fifteen Minutes Of Fame, Happiness, Know Thyself, Success, Winning The Lotto
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ADBUSTERS:THE WAR AGAINST TOO MUCH OF EVERYTHING
Grant Harder In a better world, there’d be no reason to write this. In that world, plastic bags would be outlawed, rednecks would voluntarily stop driving those obnoxious Ford F-350s and the yogis in yuppie neighborhoods would stop … Continue reading
Posted in A World in Crisis, Adbusters, Capitalism, Climate Change, Consciousness, Corruption, Counsciousness, Crisis of Values, Critical Thinking, Disillusion with Capitalism, Ecological Crisis, Ecology, Economy, Environment, Freedom, Future, Government and Free Markets, Greed, Greed and Impunity, Justice, Kalle Lasn, Materialism, Meme, Money, New Materialist, Over Consumption, Politics, The Rights of Nature, Uncategorized, Wall Street fiasco, Western Civilization
Tagged Adbusters, Buy nothing day, culture jamming, Destruction of Neoclassical Economics, Digital detox, fighting against over-consumption, Meme Wars, Social and political critique, subvertisements, the Earth’s battered environment, Unsustainable economy
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SPACE EXPLORATION, OR MYTHICAL EXPLOITATION OF YOUR TAXPAYER MONEY? THE SELLING OF A DREAM
The world itself looks cleaner and so much more beautiful. Maybe we can make it that way—the way God intended it to be—by giving everybody that new perspective from out in space. – Roger B Chaffee My view of our … Continue reading
Posted in Bankruptcy, Capitalism, Cosmology, Counsciousness, Critical Thinking, Cynicism, Ecology, Economy, Environment, Future, History, Money, Myth, Politics, Postmodernism, Progress, Science, Science and Belief, Space exploration, Space Shuttle, Taxpayers Money, Uncategorized, Utopia
Tagged Cynical views, Defrauding the taxpayer, Failed program, Faith on Science, High price tag, Mother Earth, Myth of our Time, Romanticized, Space exploration, Space Shuttle, Technology, Utopia
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SPECIALIZATION, AND GENERALIZATION, A SHORSIGHTED VIEW OF KNOWLEDGE, AND LIFE, THE POLITICS OF WENDELL BERRY
There was a time when the world was a simpler place, or we may like to believe so on this days of tremendous advances on the field of science, of technological progress that would make our early twenty century forefathers … Continue reading
Posted in Cosmogony, Counsciousness, Critical Thinking, Democracy, Ecology, Economy, Environment, Freedom, Future, Generalization, Globalization, History, Human Nature, Inductive Knowledge, Life Liberty and the pursuit of happines, Money, Philosophy, Politics, Postmodernism, Progress, Property, Specialization, Spiritual but not Religious, Spirituality, Uncategorized, Wendell Berry, Wisdom
Tagged A New Way of Living, A Return to the Soil, Consumerism, Corporate Capitalism, Ecology, Ecology & Spirituality, Environment, Generalization, Love for the Land, Mother Earth, Plutocrats, Specialization, Sustainability, Vote with your Wallet, Wendell Berry
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THE FALLACY IN THE DREAM; SECULAR AND RELIGIOUS MATERIALISM, NIHILISM, AND SPIRITUAL BANKRUPTCY
Extolling the virtues, and rightness of our now old hat, the Secular materialistic state of affairs that rule the world, it is praised with self-righteousness, like a sort of doctrine that like the famous phrase in our bill of rights … Continue reading
Posted in Bankruptcy, Capitalism, Critical Thinking, Democracy, Economy, Freedom, Globalization, History, Human Nature, Life Liberty and the pursuit of happines, Materialism, Money, Nihilism, Ontology, Philosophy, Politics, Postmodernism, Property, Religion, Secular Society, Spiritual but not Religious, Spirituality, The Bill of Rights, Unalienable Rights, Uncategorized, Wall Street fiasco
Tagged Baudrillard, Benjamin Franklin, Bill of Rights, Capitalism, Declaration of Independence, Federal Reserve, George Mason, Government, John Locke, Leibniz, Materialism, Nihilism, Paper Money, Religion of the State, Richard Cumberland, Secular, Thomas Jefferson, Wall Street, William Wollaston, Zizek
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