The ease and comfort of a modern life aren’t all they were cracked up to be in terms of deep satisfaction and a sense of meaning and purpose.
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Transitioning from Toxic to Natural
Switching from synthetic personal care products to simple, natural alternatives means giving up superficial attributes like foam, fragrance, and texture, which are achieved using toxic ingredients. This article explores how we got so dependent on these products and shares 3 ideas we can rely on in our efforts to get back to natural.
Out-Growing Consumerism 5: What We Must Do
Self-determination is the ability to re-parent ourselves: to learn new ways of being that make it easier for us to out-grow consumerism and all the forms of separation and alienation from each other and from nature that have befallen us.
Out-Growing Consumerism 4: School, Screens, and Our Kids
What too many children learn at school is not to take risks and not trust their own thinking. When digital data-harvesting enters the mix, it becomes the perfect recipe for producing compliant consumers.
Out-Growing Consumerism 3: A Self-determined Life
If you choose to keep growing as an adult, you’ll become increasingly self-actualized and self-reliant, and less dependent on corporate providers. This is very BAD NEWS for the growth economy, which is why no profit-focused corporation will ever fund government policies to encourage the public to behave like this.
Out-Growing Consumerism 2: An Act of Subversion
Better questions lead to more informed choices, enabling you to live a life designed by you rather than one that’s handed to you as a member of the consumer culture.
Out-Growing Consumerism 1: What Should Never Have Been For Sale
Having monetized everything else, in order to keep growing the consumer economy now needs to monetize the space inside your head.
Do We Still Need Non-digital Ways of Remembering and Sharing Experiences?
Are there aspects of remembering and sharing a story that cannot be digitally preserved?
Thinking for yourself
You don’t have to be a passive recipient of the programming that surrounds you. You can BE the programmer.
An Illusion of Independence
“Independent” individuals and nuclear families are artificially sustained by a fossil fuel dependent, growth-at-all-costs system that cannot last. The only viable alternative is to return to living in direct relationship with each other and with the web of life that can sustain us indefinitely, if we care for it as the extension of ourselves that it really is.