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"Black Friday" is a fascinating phenomenon in American culture. Every year on the last Friday in November, American mass excited attacking the malls and shops located throughout the hole around robinsons place manila the country. Occasionally deteriorates violence incident, which happened again this year, the same time sales highs broken despite or because of the economic situation the United States Roya bloody in it.
Black Friday robinsons place manila is the hamster wheel momentum of the global economy. This is an extreme expression and excessive structural flaw in the global economy: more and more people are demanding access to more and more resources> to satisfy these requirements, they need money> to get money they need to work> to create jobs businesses need to expand> to expand, they have to buy more > to buy more people have more money, and so on. This is the root of consumer frenzy led Americans in recent decades, and were followed by the rest of the world.
In recent years, began to spread understanding of this deranged consumer culture threatens the very possibility of our human race, to take place on this planet. Whether robinsons place manila it is because of global warming, peak oil or political instability sweeping the nations of the world - this system can not continue for long. Otherwise, this phenomenon is not unique to Americans, here's a reminder of what happened here a few months ago as a new furniture store gave free stools and Implementation of International selling clothes here opened its first branch.
The feeling that comes to these sights can be helpless. When you see the millions of people who have given up their humanity and become L"tzrcnim "When you see the propaganda machine mighty fanning the madness (" advertising industry "), when we see the encouragement he receives it from politicians and the media - one gets the impression that we, the few who are aware of the reality as it is not As they tell us about it, a real ability to influence. The most we can do is express sympathy, to mock those pathetic robinsons place manila ignorant and try to inspire them as much as possible and disclose the absurdity behind the global consumer culture.
About twenty years ago some American and Canadian activists decided to respond on Black Friday "using the only tool they know - and the call to revolt protests and announced the Buy Nothing Day will apply the same date. Identified the same active decay consumer culture, but they did not offer alternative but to protest in itself. They chose to ignore the fact that the global economy in its current form can not exist without the need endless supplies. robinsons place manila They did not offer a solution to the problem of unemployment will be created inevitably reduction in consumption and social instability caused in its wake. Like trying to solve a cube Hungarian through the completion of a single color.
Last Friday, robinsons place manila a few hours before the masses of the American army at the gates looter malls and Wal-Mart stores, on the other side of the globe proved that a small group of Tel Aviv can be different. Fairly modest event, robinsons place manila a few hundred confirmed Check the event page on Facebook, we gathered in Meir Park in Tel Aviv in order to create an alternative. robinsons place manila Not only to protest against the consumer - but really you can prove otherwise.
Entrances from King George Fresno piles of clothes, books, CDs, and even small furniture, which so far are sitting unused in our homes, and we announced a "Market Take Gift" - Anyone interested can come and get the stuff in terms there free of charge, and who also wants to welcome good things but useless robinsons place manila possession.
Market side pots were full of food, some contribution of Rs 24 and shared by a group bushel "Food Not Bombs", and is free to disagree with the rest of the hungry and the curious who had there. Center of the garden, on mats and cardboard, workshops were held which was common motto - buy less, create more. One circle gave me a workshop for agriculture miniature circuit neighbor Uri talked about a trip abroad with a minimum budget, beside taught collected how to build puppets fabrics and sponges can be found anywhere, and then Daphne showed how using a large cardboard box and aluminum foil can build a "solar oven" - cooking facility for solar energy works.
I talked to there. Since I do not have practical knowledge to contribute beyond what has been brought friends there, I decided to just describe what is going on around us at sight. In the next post I'll get the things I said last Friday Gan Meir framework of Buy Nothing Day.
I guess in the eyes of those who fought in the consumer culture and understand the damage, this event will look a move is negligible and insignificant. But to me, this is another small step in joining countless organizations parallel robinsons place manila across the city, the country and the world: Whenever founded a cooperative new Whenever a network site that offers items for delivery or services replaced, whenever a community gathered around a common goal, each time has been declared "Take Market Give "and whenever an open source project starts to form around the developer community - all such action, robinsons place manila an effect that seems itself joins the huge process happening at the grassroots level, which is establishing a foundation other economic system. I believe.
This entry was posted on 27/11/2011 at 20:12 and is filed under General. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. 5 Comments to "Buy Nothing Day, but with a real economic alternative" Nir Lahav Says: 27/11/2011 at 21:18 | Leave a comment
Nice post! But it seems to me that the reason Black Friday is not because of the failure of the economic system but because of the much more significant issue. The problem of loss of meaning and loss of values in the modern world. Instead of educating a personal meaning or significance of a work individuality, the Western world has left a void after the lost religious significance and filled the void that "values" of consumerism. M
"Black Friday" is a fascinating phenomenon in American culture. Every year on the last Friday in November, American mass excited attacking the malls and shops located throughout the hole around robinsons place manila the country. Occasionally deteriorates violence incident, which happened again this year, the same time sales highs broken despite or because of the economic situation the United States Roya bloody in it.
Black Friday robinsons place manila is the hamster wheel momentum of the global economy. This is an extreme expression and excessive structural flaw in the global economy: more and more people are demanding access to more and more resources> to satisfy these requirements, they need money> to get money they need to work> to create jobs businesses need to expand> to expand, they have to buy more > to buy more people have more money, and so on. This is the root of consumer frenzy led Americans in recent decades, and were followed by the rest of the world.
In recent years, began to spread understanding of this deranged consumer culture threatens the very possibility of our human race, to take place on this planet. Whether robinsons place manila it is because of global warming, peak oil or political instability sweeping the nations of the world - this system can not continue for long. Otherwise, this phenomenon is not unique to Americans, here's a reminder of what happened here a few months ago as a new furniture store gave free stools and Implementation of International selling clothes here opened its first branch.
The feeling that comes to these sights can be helpless. When you see the millions of people who have given up their humanity and become L"tzrcnim "When you see the propaganda machine mighty fanning the madness (" advertising industry "), when we see the encouragement he receives it from politicians and the media - one gets the impression that we, the few who are aware of the reality as it is not As they tell us about it, a real ability to influence. The most we can do is express sympathy, to mock those pathetic robinsons place manila ignorant and try to inspire them as much as possible and disclose the absurdity behind the global consumer culture.
About twenty years ago some American and Canadian activists decided to respond on Black Friday "using the only tool they know - and the call to revolt protests and announced the Buy Nothing Day will apply the same date. Identified the same active decay consumer culture, but they did not offer alternative but to protest in itself. They chose to ignore the fact that the global economy in its current form can not exist without the need endless supplies. robinsons place manila They did not offer a solution to the problem of unemployment will be created inevitably reduction in consumption and social instability caused in its wake. Like trying to solve a cube Hungarian through the completion of a single color.
Last Friday, robinsons place manila a few hours before the masses of the American army at the gates looter malls and Wal-Mart stores, on the other side of the globe proved that a small group of Tel Aviv can be different. Fairly modest event, robinsons place manila a few hundred confirmed Check the event page on Facebook, we gathered in Meir Park in Tel Aviv in order to create an alternative. robinsons place manila Not only to protest against the consumer - but really you can prove otherwise.
Entrances from King George Fresno piles of clothes, books, CDs, and even small furniture, which so far are sitting unused in our homes, and we announced a "Market Take Gift" - Anyone interested can come and get the stuff in terms there free of charge, and who also wants to welcome good things but useless robinsons place manila possession.
Market side pots were full of food, some contribution of Rs 24 and shared by a group bushel "Food Not Bombs", and is free to disagree with the rest of the hungry and the curious who had there. Center of the garden, on mats and cardboard, workshops were held which was common motto - buy less, create more. One circle gave me a workshop for agriculture miniature circuit neighbor Uri talked about a trip abroad with a minimum budget, beside taught collected how to build puppets fabrics and sponges can be found anywhere, and then Daphne showed how using a large cardboard box and aluminum foil can build a "solar oven" - cooking facility for solar energy works.
I talked to there. Since I do not have practical knowledge to contribute beyond what has been brought friends there, I decided to just describe what is going on around us at sight. In the next post I'll get the things I said last Friday Gan Meir framework of Buy Nothing Day.
I guess in the eyes of those who fought in the consumer culture and understand the damage, this event will look a move is negligible and insignificant. But to me, this is another small step in joining countless organizations parallel robinsons place manila across the city, the country and the world: Whenever founded a cooperative new Whenever a network site that offers items for delivery or services replaced, whenever a community gathered around a common goal, each time has been declared "Take Market Give "and whenever an open source project starts to form around the developer community - all such action, robinsons place manila an effect that seems itself joins the huge process happening at the grassroots level, which is establishing a foundation other economic system. I believe.
This entry was posted on 27/11/2011 at 20:12 and is filed under General. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. 5 Comments to "Buy Nothing Day, but with a real economic alternative" Nir Lahav Says: 27/11/2011 at 21:18 | Leave a comment
Nice post! But it seems to me that the reason Black Friday is not because of the failure of the economic system but because of the much more significant issue. The problem of loss of meaning and loss of values in the modern world. Instead of educating a personal meaning or significance of a work individuality, the Western world has left a void after the lost religious significance and filled the void that "values" of consumerism. M
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