Comments on: Can We Escape Consumerism? http://www.brainwaving.com/2010/01/06/can-we-escape-consumerism/ Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:14:42 +0100 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Luna http://www.brainwaving.com/2010/01/06/can-we-escape-consumerism/comment-page-1/#comment-550 Luna Sun, 10 Jan 2010 14:56:46 +0000 http://www.brainwaving.com/?p=802#comment-550 I'm with you Mazigazi. Celebrity Cult and TV adverts have become completely out of control. I would say that Twitter is the most poignant manifestation of this development - have you seen the attack on Twitter video? Its great: http://www.brainwavingtv.com/2009/why-twitter-sucks/ Also in terms of advertising have you thought about the potential future use of psy-verts? David Luke's article is pretty extraordinary: http://www.brainwaving.com/2009/10/28/psi-verts-and-psychic-piracy-the-future-of-parapsychology/ I’m with you Mazigazi. Celebrity Cult and TV adverts have become completely out of control. I would say that Twitter is the most poignant manifestation of this development – have you seen the attack on Twitter video? Its great: http://www.brainwavingtv.com/2009/why-twitter-sucks/

Also in terms of advertising have you thought about the potential future use of psy-verts? David Luke’s article is pretty extraordinary: http://www.brainwaving.com/2009/10/28/psi-verts-and-psychic-piracy-the-future-of-parapsychology/

]]> By: mazigazi http://www.brainwaving.com/2010/01/06/can-we-escape-consumerism/comment-page-1/#comment-545 mazigazi Thu, 07 Jan 2010 18:32:28 +0000 http://www.brainwaving.com/?p=802#comment-545 One thing I noticed over the holidays was that how many products in stores now have some kind of celebrity, tv show, or movie tie-in with them. We have how many different 24 hour cable television channels nowadays? Those channels need to keep you watching for 24 hours a day, and one major way of hooking you in is with products. You see your favorite shows ON things when you go to the mall! So? Stop watching television. Ignore new Hollywood movies! Read books and listen to the radio again. Get your news from the radio and the internets. There are one hundred (!!!) years of world-wide cinema on DVD now (netflix!), why not educate yourself by watching THOSE films instead of the recent wave of watered-down remakes, sequels, and superhero films from Hollywood. (Jeez, even Kenneth Brannagh is making a superhero film now! Have we really been reduced to accepting superheros as “classy” and “adult”?) My wife is a cognitive research psychologist, and one thing I hear a lot is how learning new things, radically obtuse things, at an older age will help prevent things like Alzheimer’s. Learning a new language, for example, after you turn 40 will helpr brain to create new pathways. So, using the same logic, if one gets out of the rut popular media puts you into, one can open up new vistas for your life. New life is good, right? Push ourselves into new realms! Get off the sofa. One thing I noticed over the holidays was that how many products in stores now have some kind of celebrity, tv show, or movie tie-in with them. We have how many different 24 hour cable television channels nowadays? Those channels need to keep you watching for 24 hours a day, and one major way of hooking you in is with products. You see your favorite shows ON things when you go to the mall!

So? Stop watching television. Ignore new Hollywood movies! Read books and listen to the radio again. Get your news from the radio and the internets. There are one hundred (!!!) years of world-wide cinema on DVD now (netflix!), why not educate yourself by watching THOSE films instead of the recent wave of watered-down remakes, sequels, and superhero films from Hollywood. (Jeez, even Kenneth Brannagh is making a superhero film now! Have we really been reduced to accepting superheros as “classy” and “adult”?)

My wife is a cognitive research psychologist, and one thing I hear a lot is how learning new things, radically obtuse things, at an older age will help prevent things like Alzheimer’s. Learning a new language, for example, after you turn 40 will helpr brain to create new pathways. So, using the same logic, if one gets out of the rut popular media puts you into, one can open up new vistas for your life. New life is good, right? Push ourselves into new realms! Get off the sofa.

]]>