The Voose

The problem is that most of the time you don’t know what you want. Making a list helps, but only if you think about for a long period of time or you note the things that you need immediately when you realize you need them, and that is hard to do unless you walk with a notepad when you’re in your underwears at home.

And looking might make you prone to buy, but you were looking because you wanted to buy in the first place. One always scouts for things that might be useful and they didn’t know about.

Bottom line: the way to fight back is to know what you need and choose what you want. Marketing can only push you towards an “impulse buy”, but they can’t force you to have the impulse.

Besides, they try to sell you the expensive stuff, yet in a big market, the difference in price is small anyway. You make a very small economic gain only to make sure the market doesn’t make it. That sounds spiteful to me, not practical.

I personally believe that the engine driving people to buy useless things is “the trend” and it’s a social problem and a personal problem. There is no point of choosing from the bottom shelf if you came to the store to get the most expensive brand shirt you can find.

It’s a story about performance. I think ppl should know that it takes work (and that sometimes work can become, God forbid, enjoyable).

It’s a basic tactic in marketing to promise quick and easy effects. We all want and hope for it. Rarely works.

From what I’ve read, we use the short-term memory anyway, the question is if the info is encoded/made accessible for the long term too.

Global warming = increase in energy in the atmosphere (which was caused by the search for energy)
So let’s get the energy from the increase in temperature (that’s the solar cell principle, ain’t it?) instead of oil.

WTF? NAH… where’s the corporate profit? i.e. low self-esteem, vain vanity, consumerism, unneeded needs, disease, fear, dependency, war, military trade, fear… as if we as humanity weren’t able to kick ourselves in the balls without corporate assistance…

Anyway, the idea of a solarpowered car is not so ridiculous. People need a garage for an electric car like the one in the second video, but for the ones that don’t have a garage, they usually drive their cars to work, then leave the car in the open, IN THE SUN, until evening. Even if the car is a hybrid, the amount of energy savings would make a huge difference.

It is funny, though, how probably the electric car will be possible in the end only because of the cell phone. And the problems will probably be the same: “Oh, damn, I forgot to charge my car!” :)