It is always easier to fight for ones principles than to live up to them. Until we act on your tenets people will think less of you, the longer you preach it without action, the less people will believe it, especially in this scenario. I believe it not something as a goal but as a portal, you make one decision and your world changes, all fruitlessness is left for space to fill. and you overrun extremities, life becomes priority, but this is only my expectation.. telling people my age while trying to give unadulterated advice never seems to make people level with me but I insist it on myself, i am 17 and am starting to prepare for a life abroad, being a narcissist to me is a must for this lifestyle, but, is obviously redundant advice coming from me. of corse there is happiness is conformity, to live off of limited recourse on a global scale, packing the truth in hidden places gives us a content, vapid, inclosed reality. and then throwing it at ourselves gift wrapped so we smile another day just to pass the time and gain social stature. people dont understand that the more you try to avoid suffering from truth, the more you truly suffer from more and more insignificant things. The sang “better a lie that soothes than a truth that hurts” is frowned on but in what respects? I do not see myself as a reformer, or a rebel, things do need to change and optimism accompanies me, but my first priority is to live a simple yet tenacious life on the road, becoming more independent i believe will send me later in life on a truly ethical path to change. When i read something i ask of it a single question, from how deep and true an impulse did it spring? Was it written for money, fame, personal up-lifting, or was it written to create something. 40 years ago people questioned everything nowadays people live in fear. Already the distance concept is logically arbitrary.
Capitalism requires conformity in workers, they need to be simple, predictable, and interchangeable. it requires conformity of education, independence and creativity must be beaten out of you, lastly it requires conformity of consumption, advertising dupes us into desire for that which we would not need normally.
I asked myself why, why everyone i meet claim to hate consumerism or at least disagree with it, do nothing as a whole to promote change? I thought about it and after seeing Brad Pitt wearing at least 2000$ in clothing in Fight Club it was a little more clear to me. We could avoid competitive consumption entirely. Unfortunately, this is wishful thinking. We can walk away from some competitions, take steps to mitigate the effects of others, but many more simply cannot be avoided. we need to understand that consumerism is not an ideology or something that people get tricked into. Consumerism is something that we actively do to one another, and that we will continue to do as long as we have no incentive to stop. Rather than just posturing, we should start thinking a bit more carefully about how we’re going to provide those incentives.








