My town had a big plaza you could walk around for pedestrians only. No cars. Really felt comfortable and authentic. They spent millions putting in roads and parking. I hate this country with a passion.
Modernity is centered in materialism. If it cannot be bought, sold, leased, rented, or produced more cheaply for higher profits, then it has no value. If it's substance is merely piece of mind or if something is established to give one piece of mind, then such sentiments will undoubtedly stand in the way of making everything a commodity fit only for transactions in a market place where nothing is at rest long enough for a man to feel settled.
Thanks for the video. I encourage you to find a book by Lain McGilchrist, called The Matter With Things. In it, we're in an age where we're waxing strongly on the left side of the brain, and waning on the right (and historically this is when society gets worse). The left side is the thinking mind, and we're swimming in the mind today, which can be quite detached. This includes a loss of the experience of life (which we'll find on the right). With action, and interaction, and with what we can do, which I think is locally. Cheers.
You call it progress but it is capitalism and it is what we have been using for centuries. It is just a fancy word for a profit driven market economy. The general aim of people is to become more affluent and that stays the same no matter how affluent you become. When this economic model is expanded to include very large corporations then the effort to increase profit each year is increased dramatically because these companies answer to their share holders and unlike a single person cannot just say they are happy with where they are at and will just sit in that one spot. The industrial revolution led to the expansion of production capability that led to more jobs that led to increases in population which fed into increased consumerism and therefore more demand for goods and services. So this circular pattern fed each process and gave us the growth we have experienced in the last 300 or so years and therein lies the problem, how do you run an economy without growth. Without growth what happens to profits? without profits what happens to company share prices? without a robust shares market what happens to investment? and without investment what happens to job creation? The thing you call a mess is caused by urbanization of a countries population due to cities being where the jobs are in modern economies. If you take a trip into the rural areas of developed economies you will find them receding in most cases. Your premise that we can step back from how we are operating to a simpler time in the past does not hold water because you have not explained how the economy will work with less growth as that situations always signals a recession or even a depression and that will not be how people want to live. You will eventually have the situation you want because the worlds population will peak and then start to fall and with that scenario economic growth will be impacted so how we live with that situation will have to be worked out one way or another.
"Capitalistic communism" Yeah you have no idea what you are talking about. You are correct in identifying that there is a problem but I don't think you have a good handle on what that is, how we can measure it, what we could do to solve it and how to achieve that solution. "Less is more" is a good slogan, but it means too many contradictory things to be useful. Less population? Less immigration? Less diversity? Less inequality? Each of those things looks very different and is often at odds with the rest.
And yes, less free speech and less democracy would help save us, you've no argument and to not understand the capitalistic comment shows you're unintelligent or part of the agenda as I explained it just fine, you on Telegram we'll have a chat.
It's amazing how old people are always saying ''when we were kids we had nothing but we were happy'' . . . . Maybe they had it right.
Of course, the boomer generation was by far the most materialistic and responsible for shaping the world into what it is today, so…
My town had a big plaza you could walk around for pedestrians only. No cars. Really felt comfortable and authentic. They spent millions putting in roads and parking. I hate this country with a passion.
Modernity is centered in materialism. If it cannot be bought, sold, leased, rented, or produced more cheaply for higher profits, then it has no value. If it's substance is merely piece of mind or if something is established to give one piece of mind, then such sentiments will undoubtedly stand in the way of making everything a commodity fit only for transactions in a market place where nothing is at rest long enough for a man to feel settled.
Wise words. Beauty is never found in mass - the teeming and overwhelming swarm. It is found in the particular, the discerned and the unique.
en masse*
Well said Vinnie, thanks
Masterful explanation of our current reality - thank you!
Enrichment > Entertainment. Culture > Consumerism. Family & Community > Progress
Thanks for the video. I encourage you to find a book by Lain McGilchrist, called The Matter With Things. In it, we're in an age where we're waxing strongly on the left side of the brain, and waning on the right (and historically this is when society gets worse). The left side is the thinking mind, and we're swimming in the mind today, which can be quite detached. This includes a loss of the experience of life (which we'll find on the right). With action, and interaction, and with what we can do, which I think is locally. Cheers.
here in north africa we are not as wealthy as in europe in the form of consumer goods but we own property and most of us live in their own houses.
Hark this grand soul.
Preach Vinnie! What a stunning backdrop!
Wise words, vinnie 🥃
Quality still updating
Well said.
You call it progress but it is capitalism and it is what we have been using for centuries. It is just a fancy word for a profit driven market economy. The general aim of people is to become more affluent and that stays the same no matter how affluent you become. When this economic model is expanded to include very large corporations then the effort to increase profit each year is increased dramatically because these companies answer to their share holders and unlike a single person cannot just say they are happy with where they are at and will just sit in that one spot. The industrial revolution led to the expansion of production capability that led to more jobs that led to increases in population which fed into increased consumerism and therefore more demand for goods and services. So this circular pattern fed each process and gave us the growth we have experienced in the last 300 or so years and therein lies the problem, how do you run an economy without growth. Without growth what happens to profits? without profits what happens to company share prices? without a robust shares market what happens to investment? and without investment what happens to job creation? The thing you call a mess is caused by urbanization of a countries population due to cities being where the jobs are in modern economies. If you take a trip into the rural areas of developed economies you will find them receding in most cases. Your premise that we can step back from how we are operating to a simpler time in the past does not hold water because you have not explained how the economy will work with less growth as that situations always signals a recession or even a depression and that will not be how people want to live. You will eventually have the situation you want because the worlds population will peak and then start to fall and with that scenario economic growth will be impacted so how we live with that situation will have to be worked out one way or another.
"Capitalistic communism" Yeah you have no idea what you are talking about. You are correct in identifying that there is a problem but I don't think you have a good handle on what that is, how we can measure it, what we could do to solve it and how to achieve that solution.
"Less is more" is a good slogan, but it means too many contradictory things to be useful. Less population? Less immigration? Less diversity? Less inequality? Each of those things looks very different and is often at odds with the rest.
Yes I do, if you want to talk via voice I'll educate you and you'll see how little you know.
And yes, less free speech and less democracy would help save us, you've no argument and to not understand the capitalistic comment shows you're unintelligent or part of the agenda as I explained it just fine, you on Telegram we'll have a chat.
LOL, Is this real? Or a spoof? Hard to tell...
Real, which is why you've no real reply
@@vinniesullivan7977 Uh... You stuff does not merit an actual reply. Only scorn and ridicule.
@@KRGruner you don't have one, now slither back to coward corner shrimp
Absolutely spot on mate
Bang on the money vinnie