muckmakers.com— While Mumbai suffers heavy losses from a terrorist attack, American shoppers are busy trampling Wal-Mart employees to save a few dollars on Black Friday. When will we get our priorities straight?
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This is exactly what I thought as well.As wrong as they may seem, the Mumbai terrorists at least had their reasons and consciously did something they were convinced of. The wal-Mart stampede, however, shows the darkest side of unconscious collective human behaviour, triggered by the worst of their weaknesses: greed (which then, to a certain extend, is a form of egoism) - just to save a few dollars as you correctly mention.Interestingly so, it's this same weakness that, in fact, led to the big crash just some months ago (still going on), because of the greed of many individual people betting high stakes on supposed big future profits, triggerd by the even bigger collective greed of mayor companies, banks, institutions and governments, betting even higher stakes on some imaginary profits (commonly known as speculating - which actually is an evoluted form of betting...). I am absolutely not against the free market mechanism, but I have finaly understood the real meaning of capitalism (which is only good for the happy few up there, that are addicted to speculating). Free market is ok, but speculating without limits, leads to the malicious need to manipulate people to consume, buy and spend beyond their real needs and resources. This extremely intelligent, subliminal, malicious manipulation (also referred to as publicity and marketing) is what distorts our priorities and has us stampeding a man to death.A lot people in the wealthy countries should think a step back and ask themselves if, having already covered the basic needs of shelter and food, they really need that big 4x4 car to do shopping or run so hard to save some bucks....
Hi again and tnx to you as well.There is a lot I would like to say on my blog and discuss about with you and others but..... time! (most surely the most common problem of "our kind" of people I guess). So updates will most likely have a low and unstructured frequency.. but I'll do my best!Cheers!
riccardorbDec 4, 2008
This is exactly what I thought as well.As wrong as they may seem, the Mumbai terrorists at least had their reasons and consciously did something they were convinced of. The wal-Mart stampede, however, shows the darkest side of unconscious collective human behaviour, triggered by the worst of their weaknesses: greed (which then, to a certain extend, is a form of egoism) - just to save a few dollars as you correctly mention.Interestingly so, it's this same weakness that, in fact, led to the big crash just some months ago (still going on), because of the greed of many individual people betting high stakes on supposed big future profits, triggerd by the even bigger collective greed of mayor companies, banks, institutions and governments, betting even higher stakes on some imaginary profits (commonly known as speculating - which actually is an evoluted form of betting...). I am absolutely not against the free market mechanism, but I have finaly understood the real meaning of capitalism (which is only good for the happy few up there, that are addicted to speculating). Free market is ok, but speculating without limits, leads to the malicious need to manipulate people to consume, buy and spend beyond their real needs and resources. This extremely intelligent, subliminal, malicious manipulation (also referred to as publicity and marketing) is what distorts our priorities and has us stampeding a man to death.A lot people in the wealthy countries should think a step back and ask themselves if, having already covered the basic needs of shelter and food, they really need that big 4x4 car to do shopping or run so hard to save some bucks....
brandxofttlDec 4, 2008Submitter
I'm glad you enjoyed the article. A lot of people missed my point completely, so I'm glad someone else is on the same page.
beyonddarwinDec 5, 2008
This is riccardorb again; sent you a new friend invitation from my new "Beyond Darwin" account to connect with a blog I finally started - <a class="user" href="http://DarwinContinued.blogspot.com">http://DarwinContinued.blogspot.com</a> (unfortunately beyonddarwin was already taken by someone with books on Jesus and stuff...)
beyonddarwinDec 8, 2008
Hi again and tnx to you as well.There is a lot I would like to say on my blog and discuss about with you and others but..... time! (most surely the most common problem of "our kind" of people I guess). So updates will most likely have a low and unstructured frequency.. but I'll do my best!Cheers!