No Ads
In a world guided by Love, there would be no ads, but current reality is guided by greed and desire for more. Even if you have a few $million in the bank, you’re still bombarded with ads, but maybe not as much. Because now, you’re able to buy your way out of having to watch ads. More on that later.
So what’s their strategy?
To make you hate what you have and buy their new thingy now. How do they do that?
They focus on Features and Benefits. You hardly ever hear the cons.
What is the effect? What does this do to the American human brain?
We become accustomed to hearing and seeing only features and benefits. When we actually do hear a downside of something we want to push it away quickly and ignore it. Every self help guru in the world preaches positivity because they are conditioned by our “3,000 ads/day experienced” lifestyles to think anything not positive must be bad. Avoid it!
Well guess what folks? It’s just conditioning. Nothing is as bad as you think, we’re just so used to hearing only good, that the undesireable seems so rare and horrible. Sometimes you need to explore a little of the “bad” to find the truth. It seems like ignorance is bliss, but pushing it away will mask the truth, and we need honesty to live guided by Love.
In response to this conditioning, let’s use our self-awareness to condition ourselves to hate impulse shopping. Yes, let’s become conditioned to take FOREVER on any little purchasing decision....and actually become satisfied to purchase nothing at all! It’s going to take some time and effort, but just don’t buy it if you can help it! You don’t need that purse. You don’t need that stuffed animal. You don’t need that shiny new pick-up truck. Just don’t buy it! How are you going to do that?
It starts with Awareness. Awareness of the root causes of you wanting the new stuff in the first place. Don’t read, watch or listen to ads! Call people out on greedy behavior. Your neighbor that has the Ferrari and all the stuff? Shame on them. Teach them about love and greed.
The Real American dream is not the big house, yacht, private jet and fancy cars while 3 million fellow Americans can’t get enough food. The Real American Dream is not to have 5% of the earth’s human population while we consume 30% of earth’s resources. The Real American Dream is not the quest for more, more, more.
The Real American dream is a designed system in which everyone has what they need, the earth is cared for, abundance is used wisely, greedy politicians don’t exist, and the desire for excess is laughed at because we’ve been educated to know that consumerism produces undesireable outcomes. The Real American Dream knows the Earth has limited resources and the only logical way to live is to take responsibility for our actions.
Removal of ads through purchasing ‘premium’ services is not the answer. That just tells people that “everything is for sale” and if you want it all, you’re going to need a ton of money, thus perpetuating this desire for more. Once again, we already know money is not the answer. Love is the answer.
This is why we have to be open about greed by thoroughly defining the different levels of greed and teach people of all ages how not to fall into the greed/entertainment/advertising/lack of awareness trap. When you see that Lamborghini on the road, teach your kids why it is completely unneccesary when there are people on the planet starving. Everyone on the planet deserves to have their basic needs met.
Refuse all ads! Stop going to the stadium until it is sponsored by love. Demand your favorite athletes compete for the love of the game so we don’t need ads. Stop buying sports jerseys of athletes who fill oversized garages with sports cars, then spend one day helping children, and all the people say, “they give back to their community.” Shame on them for being so greedy in the first place!
Can you see where this is going? The level of greed is not sustainable on this planet. It is an unrealistic dream world. The answer is to dream with sustainability in mind. Technology depends on the continuation of life, not the opposite. So, what way of thinking will sustain life on this planet? Greed or Love? We must design our way out of a flawed socio-economic system. Peter Joseph has made it clear why all “in-system” solutions won’t work. Design is the key.
I propose we end all military operations and instead use that money to teach people around the world to self-sustain their basic needs (get clean water, grow food, make clothing, build shelter), THEN educate the world on the true nature of the inherently flawwed and failing global monetary system. We will have more than enough resources to begin designing a system that doesn’t smell anything like capitalism, socialism, or communism (because you know that won’t fly with people too set in their ways to embrace the growth mindset as noted in the “self-awareness” tab). Not only do we have amazing engineers and scientists ready to jump in on this, we have the technology and machine automation potential to make work optional for all people. I for one, will still work because I love laboring for other amazing humans, but take as much time as you need and do what’s right for you.
Yes, you can still keep your lawn as long as you ask the question: what does my weird obsession for lawns stem from? Advertising? A desire to fit in? Some weird outdated english landlord tradition of wealth display? Keep it, but let’s be real about ‘why’ we do things. Once you see how good your neighbors are eating from their no-till kitchen gardens, you’re going to want to share the love.