The inevitable fall of Western civilization

[sabotabby]

I present to you: a hand-carved Hummer rocking horse.





They're talking about blogging, PR, and spin on CBC. It's so cute when Old Media talks about New Media.

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[eternal-green.livejournal.com]

LOL
Mark would love that!

[sabotabby]

I think he's too tall for it.

[beam-oflight.livejournal.com]

A rocking...hummer, who's brain child was that?

[sabotabby]

Some furniture store. I am scared.

Selling-Out

[ed-rex.livejournal.com]

They're talking about blogging, PR, and spin on CBC.

What I want to know is when one of those god damned publicity agencies will give me sweet, sweet payola to plug a green-house gas producing company's crappy products.

Re: Selling-Out

[sabotabby]

If corporations were truly smart, they would make me an offer. I was into the whole pirate thing and the whole commie kitsch thing before they were hip, for example.

Re: Selling-Out

[ed-rex.livejournal.com]

Are you saying they shouldn't make me an offer? Are you saying I'm not hip enough, is that it?

That does it! I'm sick and tired of your arrogant unilateralism. Whatever happened to solidarity, you capitalist-roader?

I'm starting a new, a pure movement, thank you very much.

See you up against the wall!

Re: Selling-Out

[sabotabby]

Haha, but they will be pink rifles with Hello Kitty on them. I was into that look before everyone else was, too.

[sadie-sabot.livejournal.com]

um, is that thing a wee model, or is it something a child could actually get in?

[sabotabby]

It's kid-sized, definitely.

[sadie-sabot.livejournal.com]

ugh. I can just picture it cutting off all the rocking horses and using ten times as much tot energy to rock.

[seanmonster.livejournal.com]

And it still gets terrible mileage.

[sabotabby]

Heh.

Industrial Society Destroys Mind and Environment

[sushil-yadav.livejournal.com]

In response to your post about consumerism, doomsday and "fall of civilization" I want to post a part from my article which examines the impact of consumerism on our minds and environment.

The link between Mind and Social / Environmental-Issues.

The fast-paced, consumerist lifestyle of Industrial Society is causing exponential rise in psychological problems besides destroying the environment. All issues are interlinked. Our Minds cannot be peaceful when attention-spans are down to nanoseconds, microseconds and milliseconds. Our Minds cannot be peaceful if we destroy Nature.

Industrial Society Destroys Mind and Environment.

Subject : In a fast society slow emotions become extinct.
Subject : A thinking mind cannot feel.
Subject : Scientific/ Industrial/ Financial thinking destroys the planet.


Emotion is what we experience during gaps in our thinking.

If there are no gaps there is no emotion.

Today people are thinking all the time and are mistaking thought (words/ language) for emotion.


When society switches-over from physical work (agriculture) to mental work (scientific/ industrial/ financial/ fast visuals/ fast words ) the speed of thinking keeps on accelerating and the gaps between thinking go on decreasing.

There comes a time when there are almost no gaps.

People become incapable of experiencing/ tolerating gaps.

Emotion ends.

Man becomes machine.



A society that speeds up mentally experiences every mental slowing-down as Depression / Anxiety.

A ( travelling )society that speeds up physically experiences every physical slowing-down as Depression / Anxiety.

A society that entertains itself daily experiences every non-entertaining moment as Depression / Anxiety.



Fast visuals/ words make slow emotions extinct.

Scientific/ Industrial/ Financial thinking destroys emotional circuits.

A fast (large) society cannot feel pain / remorse / empathy.

A fast (large) society will always be cruel to Animals/ Trees/ Air/ Water/ Land and to Itself.



To read the complete article please follow either of these links :

PlanetSave (http://www.planetsave.com/ps_mambo/index.php?option=com_simpleboard&Itemid=75&func=view&id=68&catid=6)

EarthNewsWire (http://www.earthnewswire.com/index.php?option=com_forum&Itemid=89&page=viewtopic&t=11)

sushil_yadav

Re: Industrial Society Destroys Mind and Environment

[sabotabby]

Hello there. Who are you?

[lemur-man.livejournal.com]

I'm sure the resemblance to the old Kübelwagen is entirely unintentional.

[sabotabby]

I'm sure.

It's bad that I want to drive one of those, isn't it? It'd be like driving pure evil.

[lemur-man.livejournal.com]

No, it'd be ... karmically restorative. Or something. You could neutralize the evil.

[sabotabby]

What if I only used it for evil?

[lemur-man.livejournal.com]

Hmm ... evil against whom?

At the very least, you'd be able to get an IM IN UR icon out of the experience of sitting in one.

[sabotabby]

I think I'd engage in the time-old tradition of running down pedestrians and collecting points.

IM IN UR NAZI CAR
BASHIN UR BUBBIEZ

[lemur-man.livejournal.com]

In the purpose-built VW town of Wolfsburg, perhaps.

[apperception.livejournal.com]

I like how it's hand-carved.

Someone put a lot of love into it.

[sabotabby]

Or a lot of sweat, if it was outsourced to some maquiladora.

[apperception.livejournal.com]

You're saying Mexicans are sweaty?

Racist.

[sabotabby]

Nah, they merely glow attractively under the waves of heat from the factory machinery, the lack of air conditioning, and the punishing glares of the company's management.

[apperception.livejournal.com]

You're just upset because a society that speeds up mentally experiences every mental slowing-down as Depression / Anxiety.

[sabotabby]

Yes, I am.

I have never experienced emotion.