Comments on: Merry Apocalypse

By: swampmusic

swampmusic — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 20:55:01 +0000

I realise that self loathing is fashionable these days. Especially among the sickly white liberals. ‘Rampant consumerism’ may seem distasteful (as I’m sure it reflects the bloated image you see when you look in the mirror in the morning) but it is merely an extension of the real world. ‘Produce and consume’ are the tenets of survival. Duh. finding the balance between them is one thing but rejecting them outright is just pathetic. Before you start ranting about Planet Walmart or fat Americans, take a look around your home and breathe a sigh of relief you don’t live in the streets of Calcutta. You people have too much time on your hands. Go out and enjoy the fruits, the freedoms, and yes, even the excesses of capitalism while you still can. Try not to hate yourself so much. It reflects poorly on us all.

By: Moondawg

Moondawg — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 11:21:11 +0000

Back in form Ecohustler, good to see. I think the danger is in focusing solely on one brand (WalMart), they are all guilty, but the most important point is SO are we. It is looking for a change in Consumer habits, as with banking habits that wioll bring about real change.

By: madmilker

madmilker — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 18:28:12 +0000

Fifteen of those cargo ships pollute as much as 760 million automobiles and not one dang turnip on Jenkins Hill in Washington D. C. is talking about that cause they are all to dang busy trying to shove that Carbon Tax Bill up the @ss of the American taxpayers.

The American people are to blame….unlike in China where Wal*Mart puts less than 5% foreign in their stores there. They are so proud of the fact that they post it under “About Us” on their China web page.

Take the time to also read “The Flow of Trade in a Global Economy” by Lance Winslow and those paragraphs within about Wal*Mart.

By: Mohamed Ali

Mohamed Ali — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 15:36:09 +0000

HERE’S THE DEAL: Get a mortgage, use your home as an ATM by re-mortgaging based on a rising property market (housing bubble), use the cash to buy shit you don’t need & be so busy with retail therapy that you just get high (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4Y7GMPJO64) on buying a supercargo of Chinese consumer goods and the boat goes back empty to get a fresh load, trade deficit balloons in the crack-addled ‘West’ and the surplus burgeons in Asia . For 25 years bonds went one way: up. So layer upon layer of debt could be fuelled by the bankers. In the words (well, at least as I recall ) of the CEO of Citibank in 2007 (Chuck Prince): ‘As long as the music keeps going, we can continue this fraud, we can continue to perpetuate this Ponzi scheme.’ But the music stopped. And we now have an unwinding of this failed debt. Check out Ireland and Spain – this will take years and years to sort out. (Germany is an exception, and will shortly leave the Eurozone. They don’t ‘flip’ real estate for a fake profit. They make profitable shit, like cars.)

OMG – what if we run out of cash to buy more useless crap?!

Merry Christmas – see you at the barricades.

ECOHUSTLER ROCKS!!!

By: BenTheRed

BenTheRed — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 12:02:19 +0000

The consumer culture is being shoved down our throats. Industry creates the need for goods we do not need (updated gadgets, plastic tat – because they have to improve on last year’s sales), pile them high, sell them cheap, then say that this is in response to consumers demand. Same with the supermarkets and cheap food. They shaft farmers to maximise their own profits, then said that they have to do this because consumers want cheap food. Oh, and this forces farmers to use intensive techniques, bad for the environment.

I believe that no one (well, perhaps a few) wakes up wanting to destroy the environment, and create a worse future for their children. If there was real choice, people would make the right decisions (about consumption, environment etc). But there is no real choice. If we wanted to sock it to the earth-rapers, a national campaign to boycott consumption at Christmas would hurt.