a treatise on egotistic consumer based society: its disastrous impacts on people’s mind. -আইনুল

২৮. a treatise on egotistic consumer based society: its disastrous impacts on people’s mind.

-আইনুল বারী

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this Egotistic Consumer Based Greedy Society gradually becomes more and more scary;

this system boosts up its ever powerful molding mechanism (for exploitation through deception) by means of  illusive-media manipulation and innovative marketing projects. 

it aims to Over-Exploit Humanity with its Fullest, in all very subtle ways. 

it is dressed up with creative arts and advertisements; and it endeavors mind- building psychedelic apparatus which keeps molding us (our brains and perceptions) consumeristically non-stop. 

this power-system channeling Continuously Creates  'Wants' to Consume, and so  to settle down the next update of Consumerism Oriented  Value-System, in name of New World Order. this works to popularize Pseudo-Individuality through Transforming intrinsic norms and values fit for, and bringing mass-acceptance and socio-cultural validity.

now, internet becomes its (media's) important mode of overwhelming updated-designations. everybody and anyone put anything likable that labeling 'info'/'meme' in it, and by laws of attraction those may come out with a Bigger Circle of Deceiving and Transforming peoples' Mind, using all of their derivatives;  thus even a false idea has a chance to be turned into a powerful ones, by virtue of mainstream interest.

still people can fight back too, even creating against the existing hegemony an alter-space for the counter-narratives. true Religion does have that strength to carry out. we can make use of its fuel and gaining power of Truth ; conscious people can build up the spaces for introducing true essence of Humanity, Justice, Love and Peace. people can bring back the true message of 'good' to fight back false propaganda (evil's strength) and the conspiracies of 'evil'. 

remember it's all about (now in a very complicated form and/ at intellectual level) a war of (seriously active/freely charged) 'Ideas'.

here, i like to put in here a very thoughtful quote from Theodor W. Adorno and  Noam Chomsky on Culture Industry and Consumerism , they said: 

'Thus, athough the culture industry undeniably speculates on the conscious and unconscious state of the millions towards which it is directed, the masses are not primary, but secondary, they are an object of calculation; an appendage of the machinery. The consumer is not king, as the culture industry would have us believe, not its subject but its object. ...........

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The entire practice of the culture industry transfers the profit motive naked onto cultural forms. Ever since these cultural forms first began to earn a living for their creators as commodities in the market-place they had already possessed something of this quality. But then they sought after profit only indirectly, over and above their autonomous essence. New on the part of the culture industry is the direct and undisguised primacy of a precisely and thoroughly calculated efficacy in its most typical products.'

-The Culture Industry: Selected Essays on Mass Culture.Culture industry reconsidered.' -Theodor W. Adorno, p-99

'The phrase, the world wants to be deceived, has become truer than had ever been intended. People are not only, as the saying goes, falling for the swindle; if it guarantees them even the most fleeting gratification they desire a deception which is nonetheless transparent to them. They force their eyes shut and voice approval, in a kind of self-loathing, for what is meted out to them, knowing fully the purpose for which it is manufactured. Without admitting it they sense that their lives would be completely intolerable as soon as they no longer clung to satisfactions which are none at all.'

-The Culture Industry: Selected Essays on Mass Culture.Culture industry reconsidered. -Theodor W. Adorno, p-103

'The goal for the corporations to maximize profits and market share, And they also have a goal for their target, namely population. They  have to be turned into completely mindless consumers of goods that they don not want. You have to develop what are called ‘Created wants’. So you have to creates wants. You have to impose on people what’s called a Philosophy of Futility. You have to focus them on the insignificant things of life, lke fashionable consummption. I’a just basically quoting buisness literature. And it makes perfect sense.  The idea is to have individuals who are totally disassociated from one another. Whose conceptin of themselves, the sense of value is just,’ how many created wants can I satisfy?’ We have huge industries, public relations industry, monstrous industry, advertising and so on, which are designed from infancy to mold people into this desired pattern.”- Noam Chomsky, from the film, ‘The Corporation.’ 

-Noam Chomsky, from the film, 'The Corporation'.

(pls treat it academic)