Raghu writes: >> Well S-man, behind the (entirely unintentional) profundity, there was >> what I think is a serious question. >> >> 1) The masses have learned to want to consume (actively helped along >> by eager capitalists through advertising, indoctrination and so on.) >> >> 2) This desire to consume so well-learned by the masses has disastrous >> consequences for the environment and for society. >> >> 3) What to do? Help the masses to learn (teach?) to want something >> less destructive, e.g. leisure? >> >> Is it unenlightened to use the weapons of indoctrination and >> counter-advertising against their original purveyers? If so, what is >> to be done by the enlightened (beyond simple gestures of individual >> protest)?
Furthermore, why is it so easy for the masses to learn to want to consume and so hard to learn to want the alternative? David Shemano _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
