We're Told This Is Progress, But It's Actually Anti-Progress
Posted by freedomforall 3 days, 19 hours ago to Philosophy
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"Healthy human life is constructed of relationships between individuals, families, communities, the natural world and the moral universe.
Our economic system of Progress severs all these links as impediments to expanding consumption and profits via addiction, obsolescence, insecurity and narcissism. From the perspective of a healthy human life, these are the perfection of Anti-Progress.
How can soaring rates of diabetes and prediabetes be Progress? Clearly, this is Anti-Progress.
How can soaring rates of disability be Progress? Clearly, this is Anti-Progress.
How can soaring rates of metabolic disorders be Progress? Clearly, this is Anti-Progress.
How can soaring costs of basic healthcare insurance be Progress? Clearly, this is Anti-Progress.
How can soaring rates of teen depression be Progress? Clearly, this is Anti-Progress.
How can increasing loneliness be Progress? Clearly, this is Anti-Progress.
While returning to the Moon and AI apps are touted as "proof" of Progress, real-world life is most accurately described as snowballing Anti-Progress. We need a new definition of Progress, and a reset of the mythology guiding our descent into Anti-Progress. "
"Healthy human life is constructed of relationships between individuals, families, communities, the natural world and the moral universe.
Our economic system of Progress severs all these links as impediments to expanding consumption and profits via addiction, obsolescence, insecurity and narcissism. From the perspective of a healthy human life, these are the perfection of Anti-Progress.
How can soaring rates of diabetes and prediabetes be Progress? Clearly, this is Anti-Progress.
How can soaring rates of disability be Progress? Clearly, this is Anti-Progress.
How can soaring rates of metabolic disorders be Progress? Clearly, this is Anti-Progress.
How can soaring costs of basic healthcare insurance be Progress? Clearly, this is Anti-Progress.
How can soaring rates of teen depression be Progress? Clearly, this is Anti-Progress.
How can increasing loneliness be Progress? Clearly, this is Anti-Progress.
While returning to the Moon and AI apps are touted as "proof" of Progress, real-world life is most accurately described as snowballing Anti-Progress. We need a new definition of Progress, and a reset of the mythology guiding our descent into Anti-Progress. "
Advertisers throw at us a continuous stream of new sugary foods, drugs, insurance policies, politicians, and other products that they insist we "can't live without" but the opposite is most likely true.
And people [except us here in the Gulch] just accept their statements without question. In my case, my BS alarm starts going off every time a commercial comes on tv [usually I skip or mute them] or pops up on the internet [on sites where I can't use my ad blocker].
From the budgets spent on advertising, the gullibility of the American public must be incredibly profitable.
I hadn't watched any tv in 10+ years until my recent visit to NYC where I watched several baseball games.
The sewage presented by advertisers was constant and disgusting. How can anyone tolerate commercial tv now?
... instead of 35 years of wasteful unnecessary wars and debt - making banksters and munitions makers wealthier.