Rethink your needs

Just a simple slogan I'm trying to live by....

So much of our everyday lives are consumed with being a "consumer" we watch TV and see commercials, we surf the interwebs and we see commercials, we walk our neighborhoods and drive our cars and what do we see....COMMERCIALS.

We are groomed to be purchasers and are skillfully trained "hunters" in battle for goods and services. We know the brand names, we know the brand stores, we know fashionable streets and last but most importantly we know how to use our weapon of choice....The credit card.

And with such easy access to the newest clothes, the hottest styles, the weekly specials we have relinquished the idea of "needs" for the much simpler and easier concept of "wants." In America obtaining items of need no longer satisfies are hunger to so we rely on consuming our wants to fill that ever growing and never quite full hole. And those of us who become the best hunters are held on a pedestal for the purchases they make IE the girl with the best shoes, the guy with new jeans, the kid with the newest video game.

Growing up in a capitalistic society we are taught how to consume and dispose and then consume some more. It is a never ending cycle that keeps us conformed and our brains void of thought. We have become slaves to corporations just like are politicians and until we take a stand this cycle will never end.

If you must purchase buy local, buy green, buy from DYI companies, and most importantly buy your needs

RETHINK YOUR NEEDS