Quote Originally Posted by mellow mood
heres my point of view: accept it or not, we are all indirectly exploiting poor countries, to make profits and to consume more. i mean, capitalism is all about consuming.
Capitalism is all about exploitation. North American domestic 'consumer capitalism' in particular might be 'all about consuming' inasmuch as it utilizes the tools provided by the situation.

if you are rich, you are "important", because you consume a lot, and of course, u have power. arent we all puppets? consuming, consuming things we dont need but we buy because of brainwashing ads, education and school.
I'd say that you're 'important' if you're rich more because you make people 'consume alot', because you're a capitalist.And, surprisingly enough, under capitalism capitalists hold the power. I'll agree with the rest of you're post though. School functions as a disciplinary force not as an educational institution. I'll refer to Society of the Spectacle for a critique of 'ads'.

capitalism would work so greatly if everyone would think about humans, before thinking about money. we are all gonna die, very soon, that i can tell, and just because of our consuming stupid system. i mean, everyone, the governement, the rich, are so brainwashed they dont understand a thing. how cant u care about your neighboor dyin? your earth dyin?
Capitalism would be no more tolerable if the boss gave back some of his/her stolen wealth to have an acre of rainforest spared for a little while. Capitalism is intrinsically exploitive and hierarchal.

isnt life more than objects you own? why everybody wants to be rich? i hate it, i hate system. at school, we learn u how to get a good job, but we should fuckin learn how to think for ourselves.
Exactly! School conditions. It conditions you to obey and to gets you used to being unfree, to normalize oneself, to constrict thought and thereby avoid reassesments of the fundamental irrationalities of school. It is the precursor to wage-slavery and the pre-determined life and worldview that come with it. Any brief examination of the school day shows that no one seriously means to develop a love of education.

first, im not sayin to vote for Kerry, hes a butt licker, but at least hes better than Bush, from my opinion. and why? well, sinceretly, why did he attack iraq? to deliver this country from Saddam? c-o-m-e on man. i mean, do u know how milliards of $ USA got in debts just coz of war? do u think he would have spend all this money to deliver a country? think man.
Kerry would have been no better. Perhaps worse with regard to Iraq. During the election he critiqued the bush administration from a militaristic posture, saying that there weren't enough troops. Besides that his critiques were of the usual strategic, fundamentally imperialist, sort and nothing principled.

He fuckin attacked it for oil, i mean thats a matter of fact. he killed so much innocents in top of that. jeez man. "americans"(i hate to use thise word id say USian coz canada and mexico is as american as USian) doest even have free hospital. theres so much criminality. why? coz of a bunch of richy rich asses owning ,milliards of $. many families in america must work over 70 hours to feed their childs. Bush is prefering spending money for what will make him possess more, rather than helping poors to make the system a bit socialistic.
Modest reform and very limited nationalisation are not socialism. Capitalist politicians just like to accuse other capitalist politicians of 'socialism' regardless of the truth.

Hes so stupid in top of that. he cant write a fuckin speech by himself. i bet u didnt see faranheit 9/11 either. this guy is simply a butt licker. i dont understand why ppl voted for him. he will ruin USA(pretty much alrdy done). he still keeps army troops in iraq. why? "to protect the iraquians" MY ASS. all this corrupted shit makes me sick. so when u ask me why theyre brainwashed for voting for him well u know why. and americans ask therselves why terrorists want to attack USA. wake up! he killed so many iraq civilians, destructed so many homes, he cares bout nothing cept richs and himself.
Bush is not the summa of everything bad in the world. Simply getting rid of the bush administration will change nothing.