Originally posted by Grampy BobbyPrecisely my perspective.
Of course consuming things that stimulate and please the senses, emotional and/or intellectual appreciations makes a person "happy" but it doesn't last. These things of yesterday become tomorrow's forgotten trash. A poverty stricken man and woman naked and alone in the midst of adversities can be happy being together with their rapport, tr ...[text shortened]... BYOB; go with BYOHappiness. Please explain the context of "to live under eternal indebtedness".
See Andy's response above re: indebtedness.
02 Nov 14
Originally posted by HandyAndyI know. Just twerking with Suzi a bit.
Tax breaks and economic policies that benefit the rich in turn create new benefits that (theoretically) drift down,
like dandruff, to fall on the less fortunate. It looks good on paper, but it doesn't work. The rich keep the dandruff.
02 Nov 14
Originally posted by HandyAndyThat is the best analogy of Reaganomics I have ever heard. I never really cared for dandruff though. I was thinking more like table scraps. All I ever saw was a lot of people starving in the streets during those hard years. When will we ever learn?
Tax breaks and economic policies that benefit the rich in turn create new benefits that (theoretically) drift down,
like dandruff, to fall on the less fortunate. It looks good on paper, but it doesn't work. The rich keep the dandruff.
04 Nov 14
Originally posted by cashthetrashYeah, no kidding, Reaganomics nearly ruined us. And such a sad waste of the previous hard earned prosperity, after all of the gains Carter had made before him... totally wiped out.
That is the best analogy of Reaganomics I have ever heard. I never really cared for dandruff though. I was thinking more like table scraps. All I ever saw was a lot of people starving in the streets during those hard years. When will we ever learn?
04 Nov 14
Originally posted by SeitseI tried to answer your question in the title as simply and directly as I could.
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If my Landi doesn't "make me happy", it at least gives me pleasure. Happiness you get from relationships.
Sure, "consumerism" in the way you described it (i.e. living beyond your means, on credit, getting the latest useless gadgets to be the first kid on the block, etc etc,) is clearly a bad thing.
Maybe you should refine your question in order to be more specific as to what you want to discuss.
04 Nov 14
Originally posted by CalJustI really don't want to discuss anything. As I hinted, this
I tried to answer your question in the title as simply and directly as I could.
If my Landi doesn't "make me happy", it at least gives me pleasure. Happiness you get from relationships.
Sure, "consumerism" in the way you described it (i.e. living beyond your means, on credit, getting the latest useless gadgets to be the first kid on the block, etc etc, ...[text shortened]... ybe you should refine your question in order to be more specific as to what you want to discuss.
thread is more of a survey. My dots meant to be an
equivalent of the silence of a therapist when the patient
gasps for air after a long sentence, kind of inviting to
continue.
Please go on. I am interested. Honestly. As someone who
has never coveted things after discovering that they brought
me nothing, I am intrigued by the psychological mechanics
of consumption.