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Topic	This post about our cyclical lives was so spot on
ParanoidObsessive 12/08/17 3:02:48 PM #15:	You do it because you have to. This is arguably the "Great Lie" of the modern age. Most people bust their humps because they feel like they need to in order to survive. Couples wind up sending both spouses to work because they feel like they need a double income to pay for their lifestyle. There is a perception that, no matter what you have now, it is not enough, and that you need to work harder to achieve more. But realistically, most of the things we consider "necessities" today really aren't, and lots of people, even in lower-income tiers, would be astonished to find how much money they start to have available if they started cutting some of those things out of their life. But our entire society is geared to marketing everything to us as "MUST OWN" because our economy is built on consumerism, and if people in general stopped buying stuff, the entire house of cards would collapse. It's why, no matter how often people complain about Christmas becoming too commercial, the bulk of people still rush out to try and get Black Friday deals or buy stuff for everyone they've ever met in their life. It's why candy companies basically rely on Halloween sales for massive profit. It's why pretty much every holiday we have, no matter how minor, is basically just becoming an excuse for sales. SunWuKung420 posted... Considering that the free love movement is more about loving everyone and not just yourself (aka, don't be a narcissist), you're way off base and completely wrong. What it claimed to be about, what it was originally about, what people interpreted it as, and how it was often implemented in practice are all different things. Even people who were hippies during that era will freely admit that lots of people only ascribed to the ideology because it gave them an excuse to get high and fuck without repercussions (or to dodge societal expectations or responsibilities they didn't want to fulfill). And it absolutely evolved over time into the mentalities of the 1970s (the "me" decade) and 1980s (where "Greed is Good"). The hippies certainly didn't invent the concept of "individuality at the expense of society" (realistically most of modern Western/Eurocentric culture is rooted in it), but they definitely helped fuel its strong upsurge in the US over the last few decades. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family <cite>ParanoidObsessive posted [p:891834836] in This post ... [t:76074056]...</cite> <quote><quote>You do it because you have to.</quote> This is arguably the "Great Lie" of the modern age. Most people bust their humps because they feel like they need to in order to survive. Couples wind up sending both spouses to work because they feel like they need a double income to pay for their lifestyle. There is a perception that, no matter what you have now, it is not enough, and that you need to work harder to achieve more. But realistically, most of the things we consider "necessities" today really aren't, and lots of people, even in lower-income tiers, would be astonished to find how much money they start to have available if they started cutting some of those things out of their life. But our entire society is geared to marketing everything to us as "MUST OWN" because our economy is built on consumerism, and if people in general stopped buying stuff, the entire house of cards would collapse. It's why, no matter how often people complain about Christmas becoming too commercial, the bulk of people still rush out to try and get Black Friday deals or buy stuff for everyone they've ever met in their life. It's why candy companies basically rely on Halloween sales for massive profit. It's why pretty much every holiday we have, no matter how minor, is basically just becoming an excuse for sales. <cite>SunWuKung420 posted...</cite> <quote>Considering that the free love movement is more about loving everyone and not just yourself (aka, don't be a narcissist), you're way off base and completely wrong.</quote> What it claimed to be about, what it was originally about, what people interpreted it as, and how it was often implemented in practice are all different things. Even people who were hippies during that era will freely admit that lots of people only ascribed to the ideology because it gave them an excuse to get high and fuck without repercussions (or to dodge societal expectations or responsibilities they didn't want to fulfill). And it absolutely evolved over time into the mentalities of the 1970s (the "me" decade) and 1980s (where "Greed is Good"). The hippies certainly didn't invent the concept of "individuality at the expense of society" (realistically most of modern Western/Eurocentric culture is rooted in it), but they definitely helped fuel its strong upsurge in the US over the last few decades. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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