2025-10-23 16:47 Tags:生活思考
https://youtu.be/4pG-8XLLaE0?si=wKietfiqWFhVdc1Z
40 50s working class was powerful, but the elite was not happy- Reagan revolution Thacther revolution free capitalism revolution
They needed to destroy the working class the middle class- they introduced new concept called consumer
Consumerism creates a competition in society for prestige
see the world only through the lens of capital
You all go into debt, and you all hate each other. That’s consumerism
We are like this, we have been brainwashed into thinking that this is the only way to behave and to think
school- we just wannna get a good job for making money but school for good imagination think critically or just for learning things
让我想到了出片文化😅
“The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he’s in prison.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky
The masses are unwilling and unable to protest and rabel
We buy things we don’t need… with money we don’t have… to impress people we don’t even like. I love this comment!!
Consumerism is the best way to keep people distracted and believing they’re free—while quietly shaping their desires to serve the system.