You all have reasonably nice bikes, I bet?
they don't count 😉
I was once one of these people but [b]I went on a retreat a few years back[/b] and studied with a sensei who taught me how to avoid all this. Since then I have been impervious to marketing and advertising and am able to make informed choices about my needs.
Did this cost money?
It did cost money, yes. But it was money well spent.
There's a balance to be struck, I think I'm gradually getting there but I've had to spend a lot on money on the way... I tried to add up how much I have spent on bikes in my life recently, I gave up when it became too shocking.
But it was money well spent.
Lol.. seriously.. 🙂
who taught me how to avoid all this. Since then I have been impervious to marketing and advertising and am able to make informed choices about my needs.
this has got to be a wind up surely?
I have a 'retreat' , i can teach you not to desire consumerism, and will do it for a suggested donation 😉
who taught me how to avoid all this. Since then I have been impervious to marketing and advertising and am able to make informed choices about my needs.
maybe it was, but it worked. The sensei himself lives a very ascetic life in the far north.
...and it went beyond 'not desiring' it lead to being unaffected by it's tentacles
[i]The sensei himself lives a very ascetic life in the far north.[/i]
Edinburgh isn't the 'far north', and TJ isn't ascetic...
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singletracked- i have never been 'affected by the tentacles' of consumerism, but then i'm a communist
Im punk as **** though, mindless consumerism is for the brain dead zombies. I only spend my money on essentials like cans of Coke, bikes and my anarchist accessories.
While you're all wandering round shopping centres on a Saturday afternoon, Im out there shredding the hillside.
Listen to Fugazi!
Woah! There's nothing wrong with owning nice stuff - if you can actually afford it. It's just that I see too many folk working and stressing themselves into an early grave in search of what they CAN'T afford - and I mean over the long term, once you've put money aside for your future.
The biggest expense most of is will ever have is a mortgage. Chasing larger properties and/or going for buy-to-let is one of the main problems with the UK. We have a never ending stream of TV programs stimulating demand so that the wealthy can get ever richer and affordable property is now a dream to the lower paid.