International Noncommerce week / no class party. March 3, 2008
If anyone reading this has actually gone without money for any extended period of time, it’s a changing experience – one realises (after the initial sacrifice) that theres something great about it. With it comes a realisation of how the corporate world has wrangled every human pleasure or need into a situation where you need to hand over cash for it. For instance the basic human needs such as water, going to the toilet, and a place to sleep (a piece of earth, not a roof over the head) is now a chargable experience; furthermore if we manage to escape these charges the corporate beast has made every social situation into a pay situation… I am talking how advertising has created a social pressure to eat here, sleep there, wear this brand, and drive this car. It’s a liberating experience to feign the pressure to worship this beast. F£ck the beast. Its great to actually just live humbly, eat healthily (no not poshly) and focus on survival and interacting with others by gratuity of a great personality (not the fashion choices), and smile. People we don’t need to spend money, we can just fill eachothers needs. I propose an international week of living non commercially, and a celebration without classes, with no fashion to distinguish the classes, where not a cent is spent, and everyone just gets on… why not?
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