Consumerist culture

[PurpleTree]

You know i find it interesting. I live in a European rich country. But imo the culture isn’t extremely consumerist. My city and neighbourhood are quite lefty. And there are a lot of hippie types who don’t care at all about flaunting money or anything. Everything is quite understatement. Although also more and more people buy Suvs which is crap and they probably have small ding dongs.

But i see many tourists from asian and arab countries and imo chinese, russian and arabs  are often extremely about consumerism and flaunting wealth. I’ve also seen videos about chinese marriage markets where all they care about was mobey. Many Americans also love to flaunt wealth imo.

So what is the future of consumerism?

I was watching this video which talks about consumerism, capitalism, communism, putinism and so on. And how the middle class and the workers got shaboynked in the 80s by moving away from caring about the workers to consumerism, reaganism/thatcherism.

 

Edited July 3 by PurpleTree

[Sugarcoat]

I think caring about the enviroment comes naturally the more high conscious you become. Also in the process of becoming more conscious you detach from many ways of seeking happiness through impermanent objects so it’s natural you’re no longer attached to objects you buy as you no longer rely on such things for happiness. As the world evolves I think more and more people are becoming environmentally conscious even if it’s slow progress. It can even become trendy, which it is in some ways already, for example shopping second hand is a trend amongst young women in the west mainly because of the aesthetics of the clothing but there’s also an environmentally conscious aspect to it. Hopefully such trends spread over the globe. 
 

I think in some poorer places there might be an insecurity around money that causes this need to flaunt and look like you have money. So in those cases it might be harder to spread an environmentally conscious message as the  eco friendly lifestyle can be associated with poor wealth in their minds which they don’t wanna associate themselves with. When people have comfortable amounts of money it might make them need to flaunt it less and are more open to eco friendly ways

I kinda think you aren’t truly a spiritual person if you don’t care about the planet in some way. If you recognize we’re all one then a natural grace towards others includes one towards animals and the planet