Website review: AlterNet: Consumption Has Finally C...
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Johnsim discovered 21 months ago- "Post-Abundance Era", now here is a phase that should make you think. But I fear that too many people have bought into what the MCS's have sold us, that "stuff" will not run out, it will always be there.
- TechSiddhu rated 21 months ago
- "Consumption Has Finally Caught Up With Us We're closer than we think to an age when gasoline becomes a luxury and restaurant meals become unattainable. Ever since the collapse of the Soviet Union, foreign policy analysts have struggled to find a term to characterize the epoch we now inhabit. Although the "Post-Cold War Era" has been the reigning expression, this label now sounds dated and no longer does justice to the particular characteristics of the current period. Others have spoken of the "Post-9/11 Era," as if the September 11 attacks on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon were defining moments for the entire world. But this image no longer possesses the power it once wielded -- even in the United States. I propose instead another term that better captures the defining characteristics of the current period: the Post-Abundance Era. If there is one thing that most inhabitants of the late 20th century shared in common, it was a perception of rising global abundance in virtually all fields: energy, food, housing, consumer goods, fashion, mass culture, and so on. Yes, there were pockets of poverty in many areas, but most people in most places around the world were seeing a rise in their personal income and an increase in the number of things in their possession, along with the supply of energy with which to move or power their many personal goods."
- mraei rated 21 months ago
- Even in a country like Germany, people realized that they have to "tighten the belt." Nations rise and fall. Unless some sort of a technological breakthrough does take place, I do not think any nation can maintain a very high standard of living for so long, except maybe at the expense of other nations.
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