Blog post fermenting since 3am, writing this morning: "Americans' perpetual consumerism leads to insecurity and then fascism".
"In building lives based on convenience and consumption we built our lives on insecurity and dependence. Or to put it another way, we built our lives on self-subjugation. We cannot live in freedom if we live in constant insecurity and dependence. We cannot live in freedom if we are ever fearful of loss."
New blog post:
One of the problems of America is its culture of hyper-consumerism. We’ve come to find ourselves in a culture of never happy because we always want the next thing that we think will fill the void but it never does. It’s a permanent state of wanting more which leads to a permanent state of servitude to our stuff.
In building lives based on convenience and consumption we built our lives on insecurity and dependence...
#Fascism #Democracy #Resist #America
https://beardystarstuff.net/posts/2025-08-13-2.html
It is endless, but most of us can't see it anymore, blinded by media consumption and tailored advertisements.
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