SIZE Does Matter

[samplegirl]

If left unabated, I can see where all this going.

•All of the restaurants in popular locations will be big box, boring and tasteless.
•All of the media will be owned by one company.
•There will be one, ginormous bank that will be maintained by the government at any and all costs.
•One store where you buy everything from groceries to goods, you know, like Walmart. (I'm sure there will eventually be a Walmart in NYC. It's going to happen.)
There are plenty more things that could be on this path, along with a privatized police force, mandatory vaccinations for all, usury like we've never seen usury before, etc. and so on.

I don't want to be all doom and gloom but unless people start to resist this stuff, unless we just say no to it, then it's going to happen because these corporations will continue to grow, continue to rake in the wealth, and continue to have political power that far outweighs what we, as individuals, will ever have.

Arguing over Climategate or any other fiasco is pretty pointless. Whether they lie to us or don't lie to us is irrelevant. They manufacture the reality. They control what we think, what we hear, what we see, what we eat, they control everything. And many of them don't do it intentionally. They just work within the system. They just do what they do because, well, that's what they do. It's hard to resist it all, but resist it we must.

Because not resisting it will be the death of human culture, and I'm not saying that to just be bombastic. It really will be the death of human culture.

No original thought can occur in an bland environment. If we're all having the same experiences, eating the same food, wearing the same clothes, watching the same shows and movies, listening to the same music, if we're all thinking and doing the same things, where will our creativity come from? Differences are needed to spark controversy, and I'm not talking about the difference between Ruby Tuesday's and TGI Fridays (is there a difference between those two?) If all of human culture becomes this amalgam of big box, corporate culture, the end of history will have occurred... and more than likely, it will happen with a whimper.


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[panader0]

1. So little is better?

Nature hates a void, and change is the only constant. (And now for something completely different)

[jwirr]

5. You made me think of "Small is Beautiful" by Scott Nearing. Loved

it then - love it now.

[Echo In Light]

2. Corporate, agenda-setting, mass marketed "reality" becomes general consensus "reality."

[jdlh8894]

3. Can you please give definition of "human culture" ?

[Ineeda]

4. You forgot one religion and one language. n/t

[orwell]

6. You drive change...

...through your day to day economic actions.

If you like small, only patronize small.

Don't go to big box stores.

Don't bank at a money center bank.

Don't go to chain restaurants.

Your choices are up to you.