eCosmology

What are the cardinal points of orientation of this consumptive cosmology?

R there disadvantages/benefit of tying contemporary identity to consumption? Watch online the documentary The Persuaders @ http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/... DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF: It was near the end of my tour through the landscape of persuasion that I came to realize how the problem of clutter finally gets solved. Marketers find a way so deep inside each of us that it no longer feels like persuasion at all. Maybe we are in control. Once the market becomes the lens through which we choose to see the world, then there's no "us" & "them" anymore We're all persuaders STUART EWEN: The secret of it all, the secret of all persuasion, is to induce the person to persuade himself ROBBINs, compared Navajo curer’s practice of sandpainting to the Persuader practices, suggests that each creates a cultural cosomology to locate & define identity Robbins writes “contemporary sandpainters construct for us a culture in which every individual enacts the identity of consumer" the documentary is free online

Public Comments

1. I believe it's a problem all the time we restrict ourselves to view humans only from a single perspective. A certain frame of thinking gives us some options and withdraws others. This movie is not free online? Or is it?
2. Just remember sex sales.
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4. You put your left hand in, your left hand out...wait, that's the hokey-pokey. don't know dude.