Beauty is a lie promulgated by a consumerist society that is based upon profit instead of the value inherent in all human beings as equals as life as what is here. So instead of accepting ourselves as equal neighbors who all need the same stuff we have believed ourselves to be separate from each other - therefore creating superior/inferior comparisons based upon the comparisons between each other in our minds.
Beauty is a lie because it does not take into consideration the actual reality of the world as it exists today. In a world where 3 billion live in severe poverty while people with money are fighting about who looks the best? What is our priority here? How are we more focused on how our bodies look than the amount of starving children who do not choose to be starving or poor. Beauty is an occupation. We sell millions of products in the form of make-ups, hair colors/dyes, gels, creams, oils, conditioners, and shampoos. First of all what kind of damage are these products doing to hurt our environment? Probably more than most would like to know or admit to knowing. And how are we hurting ourselves through consuming our natural expression through masking/covering/and changing our natural expression of our human bodies through the perpetual use of these products? How are we compromising who we are within this acceptance and allowance of a beauty system that serves self-interest and the promotion of consumerism?
Women and men spend a vast amount of time and effort into building upon and maintaining their image of beauty as how they want to look or how they want to fit in to society as a crowd. It takes a lot of unnecessary effort and waste critical resources. These resources that we are wasting on the promotion of beauty consumerism is one of the reasons we are so far in the tank in the amount of resources we have left in the form of oil. Everything we make and consume contains oil - the sale of which requires transportation - which is oil - which then always requires packaging - which is oil.
Consumerism cannot be sustained - it is based on the assumption we will have forever to regrow whatever we consume when this is not the case - we have limited resources and so much time for these resources to grow back. We can stop the beauty system of consumerism with stopping the current economic model of profit over principles and money over life.
So lets stop accepting consumerism as our mode of living and start to change the world through the Equal Money System which would give all people the ability to live in dignity.
Beauty is a lie because it does not take into consideration the actual reality of the world as it exists today. In a world where 3 billion live in severe poverty while people with money are fighting about who looks the best? What is our priority here? How are we more focused on how our bodies look than the amount of starving children who do not choose to be starving or poor. Beauty is an occupation. We sell millions of products in the form of make-ups, hair colors/dyes, gels, creams, oils, conditioners, and shampoos. First of all what kind of damage are these products doing to hurt our environment? Probably more than most would like to know or admit to knowing. And how are we hurting ourselves through consuming our natural expression through masking/covering/and changing our natural expression of our human bodies through the perpetual use of these products? How are we compromising who we are within this acceptance and allowance of a beauty system that serves self-interest and the promotion of consumerism?
Women and men spend a vast amount of time and effort into building upon and maintaining their image of beauty as how they want to look or how they want to fit in to society as a crowd. It takes a lot of unnecessary effort and waste critical resources. These resources that we are wasting on the promotion of beauty consumerism is one of the reasons we are so far in the tank in the amount of resources we have left in the form of oil. Everything we make and consume contains oil - the sale of which requires transportation - which is oil - which then always requires packaging - which is oil.
Consumerism cannot be sustained - it is based on the assumption we will have forever to regrow whatever we consume when this is not the case - we have limited resources and so much time for these resources to grow back. We can stop the beauty system of consumerism with stopping the current economic model of profit over principles and money over life.
So lets stop accepting consumerism as our mode of living and start to change the world through the Equal Money System which would give all people the ability to live in dignity.
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