We'll be under the thumb of big business til the day we stop being a consumerist society. It's funny that many people think that that's the way we've been living since the industrial revolution but that couldn't be further from the truth. Consumerism began with the "invention" of PR in the 1920's. If you want to see how it got started, I suggest a read up on Edward Bernays. (PR changed the balance of gov vs biz to gov+biz)
Consumerism isn't here to stay forever (nothing lasts forever). As soon as oil starts getting prohibitively expensive, we'll see a major global shift in societies around the world. You'll be glad to know the US is already on top of it, trying to hoard all it can in the middle east. It's a good short term plan, enough to see most of our generation through. We're probably good. No worries.
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We'll be under the thumb of big business til the day we stop being a consumerist society. It's funny that many people think that that's the way we've been living since the industrial revolution but that couldn't be further from the truth. Consumerism began with the "invention" of PR in the 1920's. If you want to see how it got started, I suggest a read up on Edward Bernays. (PR changed the balance of gov vs biz to gov+biz)
Consumerism isn't here to stay forever (nothing lasts forever). As soon as oil starts getting prohibitively expensive, we'll see a major global shift in societies around the world. You'll be glad to know the US is already on top of it, trying to hoard all it can in the middle east. It's a good short term plan, enough to see most of our generation through. We're probably good. No worries.