dot-to-dot---点つなぎ: May 2010

Monday, May 31, 2010

De-consume yourself ~ justa brain'stormin'

How to stop wasting resources of the planet?

Be a wiser consumer.

By:

Not buying new stuff as much as possible (amap, that is).

---> Try to shop at recycle/2nd hand/thrift shops
or use internet classif ied to find what you need
*used* or *pre-owned* =--= clothes, gadget, furniture, books, bikes, bags,,,anything!

>>>>>>>>>>

There are already so much/many things in the circulation. Let's make use of them by using them. No need for new stuff.

It's easy to look like $5000 when you pay that much for your clothes but

the art is to

look like $5000 when you are wearing $50.

Right.

That's an art, right?

Go treasure hunting at your local recycle/thrift/2nd hand stores--

In this way,

you spend less money so you can make less money that means you work less, if at all, like me.

^&^&^&********&^&^&^&

My average working hours/week since 030309 = 15 hours

Work = Massage, Japanese Translations, Housekeeping & Houseupgrading

My possession = everything fits in my backpack and a small bag with my laptop

The countries I stayed since...
(((( ))))-030309 = U.S.A.
030309-052309 = India
052409-082309 = Japan
082309-022410 = India
022409-052410 = Japan
052410- N o W = Amsterdam >>>>>

So consume less, I did, and work less, I did, as you see

my last year's statistical numbers that show how much I worked.

I decided to consume and possess less

Why? Because if we quit buying new stuff, the demand for new stuff will become less and the demand for recycled stuff will become more.

So? People will start using less money. That means slow in growth (consumption + production)and thus the economy slows down.

The current monetary-based economy is supported by the people who are in charge of this world, namely gigantic U.S.-based corporations.

*****Top 100 GDP (Gross Domestic Product = the numbers that show how affluent a nation/corporation is in relation to other nations, the data is gathered every year)

Top 100 GDP = 51 of them are the U.S.-based corporations, and their GDP's are bigger than the GDP of such countries as Norway, Greece, the Netherlands and many more.

You know what that means?

Corporations have more money than many countries in the world.

Money = Freedom =/= Power => "Because you are as free as your purchasing power" (I heard it from Roxanne Meadow's speech for the Venus Project)

They seem to use that as an advantage.

The U.S. corporations own most of the media source in the U.S., like television stations, cable companies, newspaper agencies, magazines, movie productions, book publications, and etc. etc. etc.

That means, they can form public's opinion according to their agenda by sharing only certain information with public to only benefits certain few that control the money.

So you are informed to buy certain color/design/length of clothes by the t.v. programs (wow! *programs*!, I wonder what that means to program people's mind??), through commercials or the *programs* themselves when they show characters/celebrities that wear certain clothes and use certain tools like cars and phones.

But Why Obey?

Be comfortable as you come. You are the only one can be you.

No one else can be YOU.

Be not afraid of being you.

If you wanna wear a shocking pink unitard while riding around in Berkeley on your unicycle,

Let it be, then.

Life's too short not to dance your dance.

Let's dance under the moonlight like jim morrison sang so right, and

so sexy.