“Consumerism” · Tag Index
13 talks touch “Consumerism”
Wicked Winds They Design to Trap Your Wishful Mind (CT004) ▸
- # Consumerism — the great consumerist machinery... Economic growth must be constant... that hamster wheel... product packaging designed by marketing wizards...
- Dreams and hopes we need to keep on moving. But don't chase those hollow fairy dreams, the glitter they flash at you in the horizon. Cross-check the narrative — both inner tales and all that you hear — against actuality and clear reason. Read more...
- #WishfulThinking #Manipulation #Consumerism #Aspiration #Grounding #Sovereignty #Misinformation #Fear #Actuality #Intellect #Politics
Like This Not That — Reactive You Are Deceived (K017) ▸
- # Consumerism — the private, commercial and corporate sector... You are the product and the producer... exploit your labour...
- Chronic reactions. I embrace this. I avoid that. Then: How easily you are played and controlled. A puppet for those out to take advantage of you. Pulled by strings you tie in place for yourself. When your premises are rooted in basic duality, pulled and pushed by attachment and aversion, this subject reactivity is your vulnerability. Who tracks your patterns can tweak you at will. Read more...
- #Reactivity #Manipulation #Ego #Conditioning #Attachment #Consumerism #Politics #CognitiveDistortion #Witness #Reflection #Liberation #Metaphor
Song of the Glitter Lady of Entitled Exclusive Heavens (WIR004) ▸
- # Consumerism — Wherever there are gullible people with the need to believe, they're a market shall be formed... when you construct them on hollow winds, it's really easy to churn out any number of products...
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- #Consumerism #GuruCulture #SelfCenteredness #Ego #NewAge #Manipulation #Belief #ConsciousEvolution #Truth #SharingEthics #Sameness #Wealth #Autobiography
Corporate Mind-Eater Algos · Cognitive & Social Collateral (TSC004) ▸
- # Consumerism — obviously personalized ads as well... The only beneficiary of any relevance there is the shareholders and the corporation...
- We engage free and heedless on corporate platforms of interaction — Facebook/Meta, Google/Youtube et al — as if they were neutral public infrastructure. With increasingly audacious attention manipulation for profit, we're jolting awake and into a harsh dystopian reality. Not your amusement park — these are hunting grounds for your attention. Read more...
- #AttentionEconomy #Manipulation #CognitiveDecline #CivilizationalDecay #Consumerism #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #MediaEcosystem #Sovereignty #Authenticity #Metacognition
Authentic Indie Broadcast vs. Crafty Mass Manipulation (HC014) ▸
- # Consumerism — Netflix Premium Amazon Prime HBO, whatever subscriptions... increasingly hollow generic mass produce...
- Authentic stories from real people? Nah — we keep munching up the mainstream media! No matter it's engineered to bend your mind into a particular model of consumption. Who cares about the indie producer! Dopamine and attention tunnels is all. All we're left with is brain rot and manipulation. Read more...
- #Authenticity #Manipulation #MediaEcosystem #AttentionEconomy #Conditioning #Consumerism #CognitiveDecline #ArtificialIntelligence #Perspective #Myth #Integrity
Smarty Glasses AI Prophecy — Mark & Beast In Your Head (X002) ▸
- # Consumerism — remaining profitable products... selling your awareness...
- Yes Mark — of course we want to wear your AI smart glasses! What you want and need us to see — that shall be our vision. We will submit to your feed and the algorithm's guidance. May our awareness be forever leeched into your treasure! What an absolutely mind-boggling approach to superintelligence. Read more...
- #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence #Manipulation #AttentionEconomy #Perception #Consumerism #Integrity #Sovereignty #Liberation #Aspiration #Parody
Our Morbid Modern World — The Root of Disease (K020) ▸
- # Consumerism — Indiscriminate consumption and spread... exploiting it, consuming it...
- Mental and physical disease abound to a point of crisis. How strange that progress and problems grow hand in hand! Is it the hectic pace of life? The excess influx of stimuli? Or our failure to prioritize the balance of our awareness? Pause and look into the roots of your well-being. There will never be a healthy body with a sick mind. Read more...
- #Health #MentalHealth #SelfCenteredness #Ego #Coherence #Consumerism #Integration #Nature #Alignment #Balance #Instincts #CivilizationalDecay #Metacognition
Sovereign Creator Axioms · Rejecting Algo Dictatorship! (TSC003) ▸
- # Consumerism — In order to maximize ad yields... converting you into a recognized member of a target audience...
- This is a channel-wide broadcast policy statement and declaration of creator sovereignty. We create as we will. Bow not before the dictates of the algorithm! Organic intelligence will never be subjugated into targeted advertising buckets. Read more...
- #AttentionEconomy #Sovereignty #Authenticity #Principles #CreatorEcosystem #Manipulation #Consumerism #ArtificialIntelligence #SharingEthics #BroadcastPhilosophy
Loonies on the Path — Your Face Folded to the Floor! (QD003) ▸
- # Consumerism — the bottom lines... the board of directors and the shareholders, investors demand...
- Yes. Not as easy as it sounds. Algorithm has a different path in mind for the loonies. Your faces folded to the floor — and every day the paperboy brings more! Of the same. The stuff that gets the ads out and the profits in. It's not even an organic echo chamber. It's an artificial gestation chamber that milks your attention for profit. Read more...
- #AttentionEconomy #MediaEcosystem #CommunicationChallenges #Manipulation #Perspective #CognitiveDistortion #Consumerism #CreatorEcosystem #BroadcastPhilosophy #Technology #Autobiography
What About Manifestation: How You Create Your Reality • Actually w/o Magic Tales (WA006) ▸
- # Consumerism — this sort of simplicity does not sell... I'm not trying to spoil your market...
- Affirmations and believing real hard — does that alter your reality, help your dreams come true? Well sure. But not for magical reasons. You are locking your attention into a particular zone. Your fixations are all you ever think of. Should you funnel all of your life and soul into pipe dream ambitions though? Read more...
- #WishfulThinking #Attention #Awareness #EsotericConfusion #NewAge #Belief #Aspiration #Perspective #ConsciousEvolution #GuruCulture #Consumerism #SharingEthics
Our Daily Rites of Passage • Meaning and Mindfulness (HYC003) ▸
- # Consumerism — your high-end fashion item, your fancy tech gadget...
- Our lives are full of meaningful transitions. It's not just the weddings and funerals that matter. Each and every closing cycle in your life is a moment to pause and reflect. Teachings in your book of life are endless. Will you pause to read? Reflect on the origins, journeys and terminals of all that is. For your growth in wisdom, for integrating with the fabric of life. Read more...
- #Reflection #Contemplation #Insight #SystemsThinking #Integration #Renewal #Collective #Avoidance #Ethics #Consumerism #Nature #Truth #Metaphor #Autobiography
Don't Be Vulnerable in Pursuing Hopes and Wants (SW000) ▸
- # Consumerism — the world of marketing and consumer engineering...
- Chasing after our hopes and wants, we dance with the phantoms. Blinded by our pursuits, we long for miracles and embrace the hollow magic helpers. Yet there are no free meals to our inner work — and the traps laid for you are abundant. Don't ignore those red flags. Broadcasting your vulnerabilities, your weakness will be exploited. Read more...
- #Boundaries #GuruCulture #MessiahComplex #Manipulation #Desire #WishfulThinking #Sovereignty #Fulfillment #Integration #Consumerism #BroadcastPhilosophy
Who Watches the Watchers — Meeting the Witness Plane • Casual Watcher (KDCW01) ▸
- # Consumerism — especially when the shopping season arrives...
- Unveiling the first Casual Watcher anthology! A collection of core reflections from the planes of metacognition. We shift beyond our finite selves to the witness plane. Watching the raw actuality of our lives — four angles into the same essence of awareness beyond subjective immersion. Witnessing the world as it happens. Orienting to raw and plain nature. Read more...