I just want to post this link because I think it is an important message for people to hear. The video is short at 20 minutes and entertaining. Please take a look and consider the information presented.
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I thought this was going to be about this.
I’m sorry but that lady thinks she knows alot… and she doesn’t.
like about the computer, and the CPU is the part that changes, and they just change the shape of it so you need a new computer??? LOL
Holy liberal
i made it 2 minutes in.
Its nothing more than stating the obvious facts behind the crap people buy, but still interesting.
There was one part that I liked and that was the part about clothing fashion. It is true that whats “in style” is what the clothing companies are currently selling. So as long as they constantly change their look, you will need to keep buying or else dress in “old” clothes.
“What you need is what they sellin’” - Rage Against the Machine
Ive never been a slave to fashion. :snubnose:
I made it about 10 seconds, sorry. i just don’t care where my shit comes from, as long as it does what I buy it for.
Sad that some people cannot even get through the full presentation. I suppose this story is relevant: http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2010/03/08/the-unpersuadables/
People that choose to stay ignorant deserve everything they get; it’s just a shame that they have the ability to drag the rest of us down with them.
Wow that was really enlightening. Teach me how to rise above all these blithering morons.
You can lead a horse to water…
Ok… I’m one minute in…
Our stuff comes from the lowest cost provider, being used by customers that do not want to pay $.05 more than absolutely required and then discarded using the lowest cost provider.
I hope I’m right.
And I hope she bought her clothes at a second hand store, otherwise she is part of the problem.
If you want society to stop using increasing amounts of stuff stop letting us have kids.
OK, I’m more than one minute in and I like this lady less and less.
I don’t come on this site to insult people. When I disagree with someone I usually state my reasons and try to work things out rationally. If it’s just a difference of opinion, I leave it at that.
I posted this because I thought it was thought provoking, regardless of my personal opinion. You can watch 1 or 2 minutes and try to infer the rest of the story, but don’t expect to look like you know what you’re talking about to someone who took the full 20 minutes to watch.
There also seem to be those that wholesale reject anything that doesn’t comport with their preconceived worldview. See the article I posted above.
More on topic, has anyone ever watched the classic film, They Live? It is very relevant to this post.
This is a great video, yes it points out a lot of obvious…to those who are educated. If you are not educated this does a great job of filling you in and I think she did it in a great way to reach the lowest common denominator.
And, THEY LIVE is fucking epic and amazing! Totally relevant
“I’ve come here to kick ass and chew bubble gum, and I’m all out of bubble gum!”
3min in so far all i got is anti-government/big business and we are destroying our planet
10min in not much has changed and that story of the radio it terrible over exaggerated
13min in and that computer story is so incredibly false its disgusting, how about bus speeds, memory speed/size, faster processor etc…
sat through the only thing i learned is this lady is annoying and likes to talk out of her ass on most of the stuff. she spent more time talking about the government and about saving our planet than she did everything else… hmmm i wonder what her agenda is in this video…?
I did watch the whole thing and still find it meh.
Would you really expect a society that can not even manage their personal food consumption/Disposal* to understand the scales of mass production and logistics required to get that system running at the lowest possible price? (*What goes in must go out or you get fat)
It’s probably the lack of detail on each problem that gets me. I agree with the old people facts though. The last generation were a bunch of savers because they lived through 2 world wars when there really was not enough raw materials to go around. Society today is a bunch of spoiled brats. (myself included)
At least she did not talk about hybrid cars and fuel cells.
lol i must admit i was waiting for that at some point between the store and the house where she would say that everyone should be driving hybrid cars because they are not destroying the environment :rolljerk:
I saw this a few years ago… I think it was posted here, but my ex may have shown it to me…
I liked it.
I don’t feel that she was anti-government at all. In fact, she seemed to promote grassroots democracy and many of the same ideas in common with the “tea party” movement. The bit about humanity destroying the planet is huge, I’ll give you that. However, would you say that we aren’t?
The radio and computer bits are illustrative examples and oversimplified, but they can certainly be fleshed out and argued for and against. I wouldn’t write them off as pure BS.
What do you think her agenda is? What is meant by her talking about the government? When is thoughtful custodianship a negative idea?
I’m just interested to hear peoples deeper opinions on all this, regardless of their ability to support it with facts/evidence. It’s one thing to simply say that you don’t like something. I’d like to hear why.
she always brought it back to the government and the people in power some how saying that they forced this upon us and changed the way we live
not saying that the concept is wrong but the way she described how it worked where the radio is “made” in 4 different countries and the only thing that changes in the computer is “the size of the chip” is very misleading on to what really happens
seems to be more save the planet dont pollute, big business is bad and the government is changing how we live