An Invisible Chain of our Time
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the information of what people want and what people did not found; we design things that just something missing, and is designed the something that is lacking in things; are designed ways of seeing life, ways to recover the meaning of life, to be eternally young; the repentance is designed for businesses; is designed the time when will be released a patent, and is designed when you discover that it is harmful; are designed words, concepts, lifestyles, body shapes… everything.
Everything, everything is designed and advertised. In a democracy, there is no choice, everything is designed and sold, and all has a price. One phone rings, one voice ask for the becoming line of treatment: “still is not ready,” replies the partner; “is not problem,” anyway “is the moment to sow the hope,“ to tell “we are struggling,” one day “this will come to light,” says again the voice; “post it!” All is designed, every hope, the way you wait thirsty of solutions.
It would not fair go against every technique or field of labor, it is not the question: nevertheless, there is reason to have to choose a path, when a field of work is being part of a production and sales mechanism that we actually getting poorer, not only individually, but in the resources and the state of these. I am aware that is difficult the exhibit of some statements when these go against a corporate and social culture, assumed as something beneficial and desirable, if in fact has never been subject to revision or criticism, has never gone through a filter of responsibility: there is a small attempt to pretend this, between the associations of advertisers, but only due to desire for protect themselves of judgments or losses coming from certain cases that have been viewed minimally by society, and very little else.
You believe possible to be informed about what is taking place even in the other side of the world, by media, TV and mobiles. Are you sure? What do you know really? The half of that you believe to know is what you need believe, the other half come from other source, which talks following a rules that you do not know. One day, a journal talks about your neighbors, your street, your work, your school... and you are not sure what are talking about, if you can have listen wrong, it is not really true: then you become angry, and can imagine how much different may be the tale when sounding in the ears of foreigners or the far people. Thus, you can believe whatever, that people lives nude, people wants the war, they have five ears and nine eyes, and people eat its own children, but never logical things as that everybody has the same universal needs and worries, there very far from here. The information is a trick of cards. You are continuously giving your vote: that is what anyone would want more from you.
I am suspecting a long time ago, the great opportunity that have programmers by building good websites engines that could simplify the information given, and ease the management of data, when this may affect to public affairs. A feature more should be the touchable character of data, the proximity, and the simplicity, become understandable immediately.
The advertising makes appear things or desires where actually "are not” or in place of those that "do not exist”. This labor follows doing the same I said formerly: create things and its values with higher values and prices, over real things and real values, and thus the total weight of all products what are cycling on the economy, are supported over the real resources. Is it not understandable then that the economy, the possibilities of development, can be jammed and leveraged, if we have tried to lift a balloon just economically devastating the takeoff runway itself?
Always the best.
The different suit which separates us as much from our grandparents in the early twentieth century, is that we have been fed for long with movies, glossy magazines which show a nonexistent world, TV shows, sudden talks scored, faking enquiries to doctors expertise: briefly, a world of magic and imaginary, which so ends being as much alike with tarot or sorcery. I will show you some exceptional or extreme samples of ads, stuff, services and profits, aids that you have accepted as real things, which really never have existed, do not exist, and will exist never, be sure. Let’s go with a short list of nonsenses.
(1) To get a “healthy life”.
This is an illusion; this does not exist. There is no one being in the world (neither will be in other worlds) that has had a healthy life. Life is not this, life is the time your body passes trying to live, same time others beings try take advantage of your body, as could make a lion, a virus, the flu, even the time during you can end under the wheels of some truck. But is not more than this. You can try avoiding risks, acting with sense, but life is not sure, not perfect, your body is not perfect, and it is not a disaster. The major diseases that we have had to suffer have been all those that come naturally from Nature, and almost all of them are already possible to prevent. The remaining ones have other origin, not only its natural emergence (as also), so the costs of all this "whole of threats" could be different and lesser if we avoid all sources that are causing it. The insurance is gathering all kind of threats: the obvious, the traumas, the labor accidents, and the long list of diseases related to diet, lifestyle, pollution and habits, more than 68% of costs.
A portion of health care called health has another name: anxiety about not wanting to be outdone. Why go you pay along 70 years of your life a lot of money ensuring what is no actually insurable, but is sure will occur?
(2) Nature is “cottony”.
Nature is not made from cotton as a white cloud where you could sleep. Nature is hard, sometimes unexpected, animals do not live placidly, they struggle every day for eat, keeping their place, breeding their cubs, do not being an easy prey, and so more. Nature is not a park, and those smooth and well-cut lawns are a kind of copy of a strange and aseptic prairie, but are not nature. Nature does not needs really enhancements; needs to continue their own evolution, and needs to breathe. The restoration or recovering must be a way to reach it, but never create a huge garden along the world. When an honest scientist began in Ethiopia the recovering of a vast river bank, only did what was necessary: follow the path that would have followed Nature, replant trees adapted to salty soil, thus allowing the waters were again purified, that cattle graze again, people grow, and revive the economy. Initially it could be seemed a folly, but really was the opposite, a common sense action, to drift with the natural inertia.
(3) Science is the way to thrive.
Science has allowed things like nuclear weapons, browse over the seas with thousands of tankers, find huge school of fish and wipe it fully, light houses, vaccinate your children; but not ever is the way to thrive. Anyone can understand how unlikely can be seen as good a bad use of science when it is applied in her backyard, and you must go away perforce, migrate away. The way to thrive is the use we make of things that we have or we construct, as can be also science and technology, and the sense with we apply. Without a proper use almost everything goes right. Are not small the wrongs made, are worldwide, broad... and deep. I do not want make this a place for a large list of events, nevertheless you can choice what kind, where gone, what gone, what time, what place, what was affected, what was lost, what disappeared, what was the cost, or what is now the cost. You will end tired.
(4) The Earth can support more, or its mirror, the Earth cannot support more.
So far, Earth has endured, at a high cost unrecorded. Earth can support pressure according to the mode with we intervene there. With our current way to doing, nobody is needed to explain what already is evident and obvious, a puzzle of follies. The contempt with which we have done and continue operating, is truly of fluorescent light, and would not surprise me that it could be visible from Ganymede or Andromeda. Once again, if we had not broken a 30% of the land, we had not destroyed an 80% of deep seabed, nor we would have wasted a 40% of the water supply, how much many people could live here? Could you imagine if would have been cleverly done? Anyway, to reach this, the “goals” should and even must change.
(5) The improving of products.
Not exactly: the products improve when the selling has reached its profitable top, or competence appears, and
add some feature formerly stored in the drawer, becomes in a new line of selling. When we all have paid a step in the ladder, then appears the next step. As you could find some strange pieces of code into software, written ten years before, that now make sense when appears a new plus to connect on your laptop: it was on the drawer. In other words, the poultry cannot take all feed at once. Do not improve the products, the lives, the food, the clothes… that what improves is the account of profits. We can agree with this provided it includes all of the costs, and does not. By other side, you would or could or ought be more cautious when believe. That does not make sense that you need every week a new help to keep your life, a new enhancer, protector, regulator, complement, concealer, controller or preventive. So defenseless did you come to Earth?
(6) The development provides bliss.
Why are you watching to TV all the day, those top tanned bodies, top women, top men, top stars, top manors, top princesses marrying, top cars, top pools, and superb gardens? Do not you realize that the same movie with the same soft hands, the same bikini barely hiding their thighs and breasts, with a similar pair of shoes on