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originally posted by: zosimov
I think if it makes you happy, then it serves a purpose.
I'm really just trying to think about which values I want my kids to have, and I really hope that "stuff" is rather farther down the line.
originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus
originally posted by: zosimov
I think if it makes you happy, then it serves a purpose.
(remind me to tell you a funny but obnoxious story privately)
We weren't wealthy growing up although we weren't poor. 'Stuff' was a an occasional treat. Now things are different.
originally posted by: TerryMcGuire
Rather than finding out who we are, out tastes and dreams are fed to us by popular culture and the latest fad and social construct, fads and social constructs that will be discarded as soon as the profits begin to wain and a new ''gotta be there, gotta do it gotta have '' it is put in place and we wander off from the dry feeding hole of the past fad in search of the next.
Edward Bernays directed public relations of the fair in 1939, which he called "democracity."[3] Grover Whalen, a public relations innovator, saw the Fair as an opportunity for corporations to present consumer products, rather than as an exercise in presenting science and the scientific way of thinking in its own right, as Harold Urey, Albert Einstein, and other scientists wished to see the project.[4] "As events transpired," reported Carl Sagan,[5] whose own interest in science was nevertheless sparked by the Fair's gadgetry, "almost no real science was tacked on to the Fair's exhibits, despite the scientists' protests and their appeals to high principles."
originally posted by: TerryMcGuire
a reply to: dfnj2015
Absolutely fundamental knowledge for comprehending how our culture is manipulated. I believe, and I seldom use the word believe, that without knowing about Bernays as a key symbol of consumer history we will never be able to free ourselves form this yoke.
And one of the basic things about Bernays was his personal history in psychology. His father was married to Sigmund Freud's sister. His fathers sister was, guess who, Freud's wife. So Bernays was a double nephew of the father of psychology, raised unlike almost any other person in the world from early childhood into the study of psychological manipulation.
originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus
We weren't wealthy growing up although we weren't poor. 'Stuff' was a an occasional treat. Now things are different.