Briefly...
Annihilating Factors:
Cosmetics Industry & Fashion Industry vs. Food Industry & Beverage Industry vs. Medical Industry, Exercise Industry, Diet Industry, & Surgical Industry vs. Insurance Industry vs. Other Industries
To attain profits, cosmetic corporations like to market make-up, skin products, hair products, oral products, hygiene products, etc. Then there is the fashion corporation that markets clothing, hats, shoes, purses, wallets, etc. These two industries compliment each other. And they market this shit by advertising a FALSE image. In their marketing campaigns they mythologize beauty by having professional photographers who know how to get the lighting just right, they have expert make-up artists, they have airbrushing in photo editing programs, and they portray models who have a particular genetic type and who can afford an expensive workout routine. The result is a fictional depiction of beauty as a standard to which people aspire. So consumers go out and naively buy these products thinking that it will make themselves something like the images in the advertisements. They pursue a standard for beauty that can never be achieved.
So, the Cosmetic and Fashion Industries project a standard for beauty and appearance.
HEALTH
BUT! Then you have the Food Industry, Candy Industry, and Beverage Industry who undercut quality food and drink. Beings garbage food is cheap to make, that is what is most available. Almost anywhere you go you end up finding low quality food, even in some restaurants. Some restaurant food is high quality food, but it still damages any “health diet,” because often the food is fried or marinated in salts, fats, oils, and other ingredients, basically ingredients that don’t help a person to maintain or gain a fit body. Similarly, candy is offered everywhere. At every cash register, along with junk food, candy is displayed to people who fail to resist the urge to purchase it. Additionally, almost EVERYWHERE you go to eat, all that is offered is soda, or soda-essence disguised as tea. You find it in all over fast food chains, most cheap restaurants, gas stations, virtually everywhere. People have trouble resisting this cheap garbage. People have trouble resisting because it is in our biological make up to crave salts, sugars, carbs, starches, and fats, because they were hard to get in our evolutionary past and they are essential to energy levels and energy storage. So of course these corporations exploit what we can barely biologically resist. (As far as our biological make-up, brain physiologists have discovered where in the brain eating control is located. The hypothalamus essentially controls the metabolic system. It also controls part of our ability to control our cravings, along with a couple other areas of the brain. The hypothalamus will override the cerebral cortex [area giving ability to reasoning and rationalizing] every time.) So people sometimes can’t simply resist. It is in the fundamentals of their composition to fail at resisting.
So people end up eating all this garbage, and guess what? Their physique is ruined. Some people are genetically predisposed to having an unappealing physique to begin with.
But with the beauty standard in place by Cosmetic and Fashion Industries, many many many people find the need to try to stay fit in the midst of this garbage food and drink.
So what do people do? They seek out the Exercise Industry, and the Diet Industry, and the Surgical Industry. The pay for gym memberships, exercise equipment, pills and powders, liposuction, plastic surgery, some of which is bad for them. All of these industries fuel each other at the expense of the individual’s health and wealth. The individual is annihilated.
Additionally, all of this garbage food and drink increases medical risks on our health. So what do people do? They seek out the Medical Industry to give them medicine for diseases caused by the Food and Drink Industry.
Similarly, (as a small example) people tan to try to obtain that ideal complexion of the beauty standard set by the Cosmetic/Fashion Industry. Long-term tanning can cause skin cancer and once again they are knocking on the Medical Industry’s door. Tanning also accelerates the dermatological effects of aging. So people go waste their money on plastic surgery to fix that, because hey, EVERYONE’S GOTTA LOOK BEAUTIFUL. Or they buy topical creams, liquids, make-ups, or bullshit infomercial junk that is supposed to alleviate these aging symptoms. Much of the chemicals in the topical products are questionable for health. And this again takes them full circle to the Medical and Surgical Industries.
The Alcohol and Smoking Industry advertises their products in a similar way that the Cosmetic/Fashion Industries do. They set a standard for “cool” behavior, how to be a “cool” person. People buy into it and then 50 years down the road they’re dropped off at the Medical Industry.
Oh but wait, all this medical care needs insurance! So people pay the Insurance Industry to pay the Medical and Surgical Industries to fix issues that are caused by the Food/Candy/Drink/Alcohol/Smoking Industries and inspired by the Cosmetic/Fashion/Diet Industries. And all of these problems are manufactured for profits. Meanwhile the individual is annihilated. But wait, there’s more.
All this industry can’t create all these problem enforcing products without also creating its unnecessary pollution. Our water is polluted, and do you know what that means? Polluted sea food! That sure contributes to our health, don’t it! ***The Medical Industry will be waiting.*** Additionally, our water purification plants have to work even harder and harder to purify the waters as they get dirtier. The standard price for city water goes up. And what do we do with all the pollution that we extract from our drinking water? Well we dump it right back into the earth! That’s good for our soil you see! Damn, how smart of us! We pollute the underground water table, which we cannot purify by any method. Therefore crop fields are eventually affected making it more difficult to grow crops because the soil is more inhospitable to plant-life, it is also more easily exhaustible, and unreplenishable. So farmers have to pump the soil with fertilizers and steroids (which pollutes the soils further as the chemicals break down and concentrate in other locations) to make these crops grow (which supports a yet again another industry). That’s good for our health TOO! ***The Medical Industry will be waiting.***
Our air is polluted and we all know that is good for our health! ***The Medical Industry will be waiting ***. This pollution contributes to global warming. Global warming results in weather instability due to the climate dynamic. And this means more frequent more powerful hurricanes and tornados. Therefore higher levels of destruction is on the way. Luckily, we have Construction Industries that can profit from these disasters as they get to sell all varieties of construction equipment and products. Other industries get to move into disaster areas and set up shop to appear as saviors and then exploit and capitalize on the desperate people in need of products and services. These industries get to initialize everything I have previously addressed now in new nations.
OBSOLESCENCE
So to what are many of these industries devoted? They are devoted to manufacturing products. Oh but they don’t tell you that they deliberately design them to wear out and break down. That way you’re knocking on their door again. Ever hear the phrase, “They don’t make’em like they used to.” Absolutely true, and it’s on purpose. This “planned obsolescence” has given birth to a new sub-industry in stores. People are now aware of how easy it is for shit to break and wear out so they purchase rip-off service plans (insurance) to take care of it just in case. It also gives birth to a Parts and Repair Industry. Fortunately for the store, they know about when the product is intended to wear out so they set the service plan to expire just before the product wears out. Additionally, this planned obsolescence results in extreme waste of all kinds of resources. It also contributes to pollution as the trashed items end up in landfills where they pollute the soil and water table once more. This planned obsolescence also requires us to cut down more trees, dig up more ground, and spend more money.
And for what are all of these products designed? Most items are designed to take care of human tasks or make tasks much faster (dish washers, microwaves, computers, printers, multi-functional cell phones, lawn mowers, snow blowers, chainsaws, nail guns, cars, airplanes, calculators, vacuum cleaners, ready-made food, anything digital, anything automated, etc.). This gives people more leisure time, which they ALSO design products for. Video games, television (which advertises all the products that create these problems), standard Hollywood movies (which portrays the standard of unachievable beauty and cool style), magazines (which advertise the problem enforcing products), and news (which is basically entertainment nowadays), all of which helps support all the problems. So what is the industry doing here? They are creating time-savers so that they can sell time-takers. An attempt to minimize work and maximize play. All of a sudden, more and more children are diagnosed with A.D.D. ***The Medical Industry will be waiting.*** Could it be all the manufactured distractions in life?
Also, the compression of task-time and task-difficulty and the maximization of playtime easily produces escapist sedentary lives that are filled with the video games, TV, movies, news, and other bullshit. Let’s hope those people don’t aspire to the aesthetic beauty standard set by the Cosmetic/Fashion Industry. If they do they're shit out of luck.
But perhaps the person is more business oriented and they prefer no leisure time. They focus on getting business done and making money so that they can buy more products that save them more time so that they can get more business done and make more money so that they can buy more products that save them more time so that they can get more business done and make more money so that they can buy more products that save them more time so that they can…..
So they benefit well form the time-saving products that are created. Well as products are built to allow for more tasks at a higher pace, the person has more on their plate. This entails more stress because there are more things to worry about. Suddenly, people need caffeine, energy drinks, pills, and drugs to keep up with the work (which can become addictive). Additionally, less time means less time to cook and eat. They resort to the cheap, quick, and easy garbage food to save time (which can become addictive). ***The Medical/Diet/Exercise/Surgical/Cosmetic Industry will be waiting.***
EDUCATION
And as people are sucked into this annihilating machine they are grinded up. In the shadow of all this, education is pushed to background as business and the need to profit to get ahead takes the forefront. Thus, people are less educated to recognize the serious destruction of this system. The system appeals to their uncontrollable and oblivious urges and desires.
It all stands in direct opposition to education. The usual education that most people receive is an education that is rooted in training them to be effective problem creators, instead of problem solvers. The only problem solving they do is solving the problems created by other industries that have their own people doing the same thing. So all of these industries sell solutions to problems created by other industries that sell solutions to problems created by other industries that sell solutions to problems created by other industries that sell solutions to problems created by other industries, on and on into a full circle. Meanwhile the individual in annihilated in the center. No matter what, the individual is in one way or another caught in this cycle of annihilation. It’s something I have realized lately. Everything in human civilization is built on the annihilation of something else. Eventually it will be our demise.
THE ANNIHILATION
In doing all of this, we offset the symbiosis that preceded the rise of our civilization. So far the symbiosis has been able to reset itself and evolve alongside our destructive development. But for the past 50 years we have began to see the symbiosis break down. Because we drift further and further away from our original place in this world at far too fast of a rate for the earth to keep up. As our population grows all our problems compound. Some people will say that it is natural, and it is natural actually. The naturalness of it is us emerging as the most destructive parasites of all time. Parasites are a part of the symbiotic process all the time. So sure, it is natural. But in admitting this, we have to also admit that a complete annihilation is also natural, and we will go down with everything else. Because parasites die within the host that they suck dry. Our despicable conduct will degrade the earth possibly beyond our repair and we will simply vanish. Much of the life on the planet will be wiped out as the balance fails to regain its footing. We’ll vanish like we deserve to. And life will simply evolve again. Hopefully a new intelligent species will come along and be a bit wiser than we were.
In light of all of this, the problem is colossal. Anyone who realizes this unfathomable problem faces complete despair, as I do. A world of apathetic people is manufactured, and an unfortunate few face complete helpless hopelessness as they realize this. The psychosomatic effects of this system create neurosis in human beings that then begin to cause the growing social problems that we have (crime, poverty, stratification, prejudice, etc.). People grow frustrated and deranged when they attempt to have it all. They seek the solutions that the different industries create, but the solutions contradict each other. So they can’t have it all, and this creates a suffering people. It is a cruel system, no doubt. It’s probably the biggest most complicated paradox of all time. All the problems of the world are interrelated and a major contributor to the problems is capitalism. Politicians try to solve these problems with solutions that originate from within the box of ignorance that capitalism helps create and deliberately perpetuate. Full speed ahead capitalism.
A lot of the shit I mentioned is only a tiny slice of the pie. Only a few examples were given. I didn’t even mention the annihilating factors of industries pushing for war for profit, and we’ve already been over much of the philosophical aspects which I hope you recall. But I’m not trying to write a book here. But this is a rough outline that I have previously only touched on bit by bit (which I’m still kind of doing here).
But really J-Breaks, Capitalism is an inward built system. It is extremely conservative in a sense. It doesn’t want possible change for the better (unless of course it is profitable). For this reason it is unsustainable because it doesn’t look ahead. It is only concerned with the here and now. Capitalism is an inward growing system. Capitalism has set limits which force it to only expand inward. It exploits all space within its limits. Individuals feel the pressure build within. We feel it now. Eventually it will run out of space to expand and annihilate all within. The system will implode. Anarcho-communism and anarcho-syndicalism is an outward growing system because it keeps the future in mind and its fundamental composition is an open system, not a closed one. You can imagine capitalism to be a brain that continuously grows within a skull that doesn’t grow at all.
So yes, as I said, capitalism is irrational, and it creates annihilating factors.
Next, I’ll hit you with the “tyranny of ideas.”