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On Modern Servitude
Trailer from doc**entary movie "On moderne servitude" by Jean-François Brient about the totalitarian mercantile system where we are living.
The full movie can be watched online here: http://vodpod.com/watch/2779298-on-modern-servitude
Modern servitude is voluntary, endorsed by those slaves who crawl on the surface of the Earth. They buy the merchandises that enslave them every day more.
To participate in the round of frenetic consumption, one must have means and one must, therefore, work, in other words, one must sell oneself. The dominant system champions work as its most esteemed value; slaves have to work more to buy on credit their miserable lives. Slaves wear out in the work place; they waste their vital strength and have to suffer the worst humiliations. They spend their lives performing grueling tasks for the benefit of a few. Modern unemployment is invented as a scare tactic to force slaves into endless gratitude the generosity of the power elite.
The best part of the slaves life slips through his fingers, but he continues because he has always obeyed. Obedience has become second nature to him. He obeys not knowing why, simply that he must. Obey, produce and consume, behold the triptych that rules his life. He obeys his parents, his teachers and his masters, the landlords and the merchants. He obeys the forces of law and order; he obeys all powers because he does not know any better. There is nothing that frightens him more than disobedience, because it signifies risk, adventure, change.
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Comment by Michele Saba on April 3, 2010 at 10:08am
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If Ithaca Hours (local currencies) gain momentum, with Ithaca Hours you could buy Treasury Bonds at say, twice the nominal price to help USA to half the public debt. This because Ithaca Hours carry on only the printing press cost. This will introduce something totally unknown to central banking: COMPETITION and FREE MARKET. Are "THEY" ready to accept this challenge? This is my best EVOKE IDEA and it is interesting for EVERY country.
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Comment by Ternura Rojas on April 3, 2010 at 11:26am
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Please also check: http://www.ted.com/talks/kevin_bales_how_to_combat_modern_slavery.html
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All the things taht you are sharing here are true! Once a diplomatic (means the foreign affair representative of a country) told us that this is exactly how we all live. People form developed countries think we are free, but we are slaves of our "needs", and there is always one to take advantage of that.
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Comment by Ezra Ho on April 3, 2010 at 11:33am
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I was the one who posted the "How to Combat Modern Slavery" talk.
Yeah, it's absolutely mind-blowing to realise that we are living in a Matrix of sorts. The system feeds off our energies and without knowing it, we succ**b to its influences, becoming insecure, self-centered, materialistic consumers. We lost our human roots. But I hope that people will wake up and be able to see the wh*** forest instead of a single tree.
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Watch: http://www.storyofstuff.com/ I love to share this movie because it summarizes the wh*** problem, not just in USA, everywhere as it is our human nature, regretfully this is our roots. I think we are not victims at all I believe it comes from ourselves, we created it and we should solve it....soon! T
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Yeah, seen that. But I disagree with you that it is our human nature. There really is no such thing as human nature, that I will leave that for another time. The consumer culture that we see and it's associated behaviours were engineered about 100 years ago, after World War I. If you're interested, you should go watch a 4 part doc**entary called Century of the Self. But to make a long story short, industrial leaders found themselves stuck with excess production. But society back then did not revolve around mass consumption. So they hired Freud's nephew, Edward Bernays to tap peoples' unconscious emotions and desires to transform them into docile consumers. And the rest is history.
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Comment by Michael Texeira on April 3, 2010 at 12:07pm
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no new info for me here but it is nice to see it so aptly stated. I've forwarded it to others who will hopefully forward it on to more. few will stand up until there's broad enough support so that the civil disobedience will be beyond elimination. I don't agree that violent revolution is the next logical step. what makes more sense to me is the parallel creation and running of a different system, as invisible as it can be, but with the conditions provided to allow people to exit the matrix. this was referenced after a sort by the conclusion to the Matrix itself.
Bernays...the man who made it cool for women to smoke. yeah, this is all well known stuff really, commonly ignored but well known. as we've said before, the only real revolutionary acts are spreading the truth of what is happening, and creating alternatives to slavery in pocket communities.
I wonder how many people here realize that their Evokation is just another product to be co-opted and twisted my mercantile capitalism. the best of intentions coupled with ignorance has never made a sweet concoction.
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Sweetie, I believe we have to stop playing the victim here. Back then and at the present there is certainly excess production...so what? were you born a consumer machine just because a "smarter" guy decide to "implant the chip" of consumerism our grandparents brain? sorry?
As a scientist, I prefer to think that I am an individual in every sense and I have my choices and regardless of the past I decide what to do with my future, my money, my time, my relationships, etc. HENCE it is my absolute responsibility whatever I choose to buy instead of renting, borrowing, recycling, etc.
Many alternative options are always there. But no....we want to drive the newest Mercedes instead of using public transport.
I think we came down to this situation because we keep blaming others for our own mistakes and for the misery that we pursued. Humanity behaves like a bunch of weak lazy kids. We have to grow up! it is time to be brave, face the facts and take action. Piece of cake! T
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Ternura...on one level you are free to do so. but did you create the conditions which give value to your money, or determine what ways to spend your time are available, or the people who exist in your sphere of existence to be in relationship to. none of us are individuals. this system is inexorably interdependent. there are no single parts in it. we are holons, not mere wh***s. we are both a collection of interdependent organisms, and one in a collection of interdependent organisms.
in the US, consumerism is taught, at a young age and conditioned by peers, parents, and the entire social structure. as someone who did not comply with much of the programming I received growing up, I had to deal with a bit of stigma. I have had people threaten me when I attempted to convey the effect of the consumer system. people are identified on a very real level with their consumption patterns. this needs to be understood and not overlooked. this isn't about victimhood either. the people choose to obey rather than live in stigma. just as in the middle of the US and in many other places, a h***sexual might live their wh*** life under the guise of being straight so as to avoid the stigma and potential violence of their true feelings.
you are right, we do have to be brave. but are you willing to stand up alone and state the truth to millions upon millions of people who have spent their wh*** lives and all their vital energies creating what you are telling them are lies. they will kill you, as they have a million time. many people throughout the past have stood up to tell us that we are slave to hierarchical power structures, and many of them have been killed for it. or killed for demonstrating the power structure even without knowledge.
its not about blame, but about recognition. there is an international banking system which uses debt to place governments and individuals around the world in situations where their energies can easily be manipulated into agendas which do not serve them, but the bankers. this is just fact. these people at the top are not to blame. they are doing what they've been programmed to do. there is no person responsible for all of this to blame.
this is a viral meme. this is not the first time in history, or the first world, that has contended with this viral meme, this toxic and poisonous idea which has infiltrated and consumed the wh*** world. entire books are about it, couched in fantasy, poetry, and epic tales. on some level, every story is about humanity's higher awareness at odds with this virus. blame is not useful, but neither is denial. so yes, we must be brave and face the facts, and take action if we want things to change. the reason things haven't changed is because the critical mass is not yet desiring things to change.
what action? can you tell me what action I must take without reinforcing the hierarchy in the power structure? no. so its a difficult thing this, because each person must do it for themselves. if I tell you how you should act, then I am setting myself up as an authority and reinforcing the system. this isn't about single acts, such as public transport vs. a car. this is about, in my mind, broad sweeping social and cognitive trends, and the realization that those on top are serving the people who want to be slaves. the challenge is that as long as some people wish to be slaves, someone will always volunteer to be master.
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I agree with the video in that this meme, this viral idea must be recognized and destroyed within our own self continuously. I wish I could say that I am completely successful at this, but I am not.
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