consumer society, Christmas and blogs
Give away money!
Na? Pure pleasure. Welcome to the bottom of the unrealizable desires, possessions and the absolute ignorance of the truly important things in life. ... Okay, now you've caught me. I'm not a saint.
Where we are now also on the topic would be Christmas is practically on the well-known door and we all ask ourselves, why do not I have more money to spend and have had: What do I sell my gifts this year from Ebay ...? My
worthlessness probably less, finally I get ... Money. And no, I really give away anything. Finally, it is currently
indeed consume not about giving away, it's about, the economy, the balance sheets, achwas for world peace! I give now first, some wisdom intelligent contemporaries and comrades ... Of course the topic of this blog and the topic of today's generation use.
"How many are still things which I do not need."
Socrates (c. 470-399 BC.), Greek philosopher
Since beginning schonmal yes to. Actually, the people need very little to survive. This shows Asian and African children each day rather involuntary. Of course, German. But most still have more than the average small African village. I tell you nothing new, but even scare me the dimensions ... and that there is nothing new, but rather a quite old problem that we still do not get a handle on. A fact that no sex tourists, nor a fat man with a beard.
"Is it not true that we are building a wall out of things around us, a high wall of death not to see? ... The engine of the consumer society is not the joy of life, but the fear of death. "
Lotte Ingrisch (* 1930), OEstre. Writer
How true, how true. Although I sometimes have something like" joy "feel, . when a new game into the house flies, a new book falls into the hands or a moving film in the cinemas, and fear of death we all match:.
"also consumed when good, can vegetate it. "
Rudi Dutschke (1940-79), Ger student leaders
I see them every day. The worn-out and exhausted faces in the orbits of the major cities.
blank face, quite tense between Kaufhof scramble, phone calls, Gucci and Dolce & Gabbana - purses slow, just to to dive in the position of the escalators in the underground in the next Starbucks and to delight in the overcrowded tables, the latest free-spending winter creations .
I must admit, all this is fun, of course. Each person consumed (like), I am no exception. Perhaps I simply lack the raw material, the money can be yes. Is the envy of the talking to me?
Yes, certainly, but rather to the carelessness, rather than the money itself, we are all hungry for new information, for beautiful new Things, but fortunately also sometimes for things that bring us further. I love music, literature, movies and video games. Okay, the last point in talking to "get ahead" of something is really strange, but it brings me to relax after a stressful day at work. Or shopping.
Well ... there we are. You can see it is an eternal cycle. This year my Christmas is not too impressive. I will slippers, shoe cleaning cream, a pair of boots for 30 €, a jacket and 50 € get to go on it again for New Year. All things I need, especially the money, because for that I am going to Berlin. Consuming and very good friends with the simple joy of being together. Prost!
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