Not All Who Wonder Are Lost

4 days ago
#cancer research #cancer #research #pink ribbons #capitalism #breast cancer #consumerism

truth

2 weeks ago
Viaroarieyum
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#Banksy #advertising #corporations #capitalism #consumerism

nevver:

“I despise modern music. Words cannot express how much it gets on my nerves – the false, pretentious, smug assertiveness of it. I hate business, having to deal with money. Money is one of the most hateful inventions of the human race. I hate the commodity culture, in which everything is bought and sold. No stone is left unturned. I hate the mass media, and how passively people suck up to it.” — R. Crumb

“I despise modern music. Words cannot express how much it gets on my nerves – the false, pretentious, smug assertiveness of it. I hate business, having to deal with money. Money is one of the most hateful inventions of the human race. I hate the commodity culture, in which everything is bought and sold. No stone is left unturned. I hate the mass media, and how passively people suck up to it.” — R. Crumb

1 month ago
Vianevver
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#crumb #r crumb #consumerism #media #capitalism #money #music #contemporary

theatlantic:

The 100-Year March of Technology in 1 Graph

This graph below from Visual Economics, which shows the adoption rate of new technologies across the century, is one of my new favorites … Click it. Print it. Take your time with it. That’s a lot of linear data. One way to parse it is to ignore everything at the top and trace your eye along the 10% line:

In 1900, <10% of families owned a stove, or had access to electricity or phones

In 1915, <10% of families owned a car

In 1930, <10% of families owned a refrigerator or clothes washer

In 1945, <10% of families owned a clothes dryer or air-conditioning

In 1960, <10% of families owned a dishwasher or color TV

In 1975, <10% of families owned a microwave

In 1990, <10% of families had a cell phone or access to the Internet

Today, at least 90% of the country has a stove, electricity, car, fridge, clothes washer, air-conditioning, color TV, microwave, and cell phone. They make our lives better. They might even make us happier. But they are not enough.

Read more. [Image: Visual Economics]

1 month ago
Viatheatlantic
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#technology #consumption #consumerism #humanity

“We have to create culture, don’t watch TV, don’t read magazines, don’t even listen to NPR. Create your own roadshow. The nexus of space and time where you are now is the most immediate sector of your universe, and if you’re worrying about Michael Jackson or Bill Clinton or somebody else, then you are disempowered, you’re giving it all away to icons, icons which are maintained by an electronic media so that you want to dress like X or have lips like Y. This is shit-brained, this kind of thinking. That is all cultural diversion, and what is real is you and your friends and your associations, your highs, your orgasms, your hopes, your plans, your fears. And we are told ‘no’, we’re unimportant, we’re peripheral. ‘Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that.’ And then you’re a player, you don’t want to even play in that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that’s being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.”