Good old fashioned choice between good and evil. The Red Pill is for grown ups the Blue is for the materialists. You pay your money and you take your choice.
Showing posts with label homo materia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label homo materia. Show all posts
Wednesday 4 January 2012
Monday 19 December 2011
Why Does Thinking About Reality Shut Down Homo Materia?
Lovely interview with Neil Kramer here addressing why the present reality construct is wired to incentivise people not to think about what is real or not and instead seek comfort in shopping and material acquisitions or cling on to their work irrespective of the morality of it or the unhappiness it creates.
Friday 11 March 2011
Thursday 10 March 2011
Homo Materia
I've been reading through the web board postings of time traveler John Titor so as to get a better understanding of the context within which he corresponded with people on the internet coming from 2036 in 2001. I often lament the materialism of people filling up the vacuous spiritual crater with more useless stuff and I seem to recall dreaming up a description of Homo Consumericus or something not so long back, so this resonated when I read the following passage just now.
17 January 2001 11:29
In the future, sociologists spend a great deal of time discussing the collective mentality before the war that led to the demise of "Homo Materia".
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