Book of J.A.Montemoiño – Day 14,262

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Day 14,262 – 12/14/15: – Book of J.A.Montemoiño
~Consumerism~

Generation after generation of consumers.
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How many people consider that as a parent we’ve been guilted into becoming the primary conveyors of consumerism?  Through our Asexample as parents, and with the help of mass media, we are conditioning our kids to be consumers, for one more generation.  Moreover, as the years and generations go by, we spoil our kids by feeding into a “buyer’s” market and mindset, our children are trained to expect, on Christmas expect, on birthdays expect, Fourth of July EXPECT.  A story of how 3 kings gave gifts for 1 very special and unique child later translated into all children everywhere are to be showered with given gifts.   Why is it that when babies are first born they care not about a Barbie or iPad as long as it fits in their hand or mouth? But because we as parents put them in front of a TV, and condition them to want needless toys, and have them gravitate toward what was seen on the Boob Tube, they’ve now been indoctrinated into consumerism, a side effect of Media addiction aka TV, Radio, Internet consumption.

It is common now that many people (to a certain degree), really strive for and somewhat expect their lives to be like a TV show, or a romantic movie; this lie is the cause for many peoples disappointment with life because we aim to have our life mimic art rather than see art as a reflection of life.  Ask yourself, does life mimic art or does art mimic life?  I believe art should mimic life as art is an expression of a feeling or thought (many times a result of some external experience).  Therefore the source of the art originates from some life experience, great or miniscule.  When we perceive life to mimic art, then we see children that want to be just like lil wayne, beyonce, taylor swift, rhianna, miley cyrus, the american Idol winner, etc.  These things and people become the primary source of influence to our kids.

Now, the Internet is like taking television to an exponential level.  We have full control to seek and find what we want on the web, our problem is this: what are we training our kids to want to know more about? Or even indirectly, what influences are we allowing our children to become curious about? or be shaped by?

We spend our days working and striving for an elusive lifestyle as we judge our life according to what we have compared to others.   We spend all of our time amassing wealth or even just getting by, but miss so much opportunity to enjoy what we spend so much time dedicated to “doing”.    As I looked around Toys-R-Us while participating in this “Holy” season of buyer consumption,  there were pink sections in the place; and I said to myself why that color?  Why? Because we teach our kids that this color is for you and this color is not. Why do we do that?  Because that’s what was told to us growing up.  Children aren’t born with a natural want for Dora or G.I.Joe; that, we teach them and the corporations that profit from this season (Or any season really) are responsible for this consumer programming.   They created a system where labels and stereotypes rule our lives.

When children are born, they are handed a  catalog of labels and first see all of the labels inherited through environment influences (Parents, neighborhood, TV, family, friends) and then as they grow into adulthood they choose for themselves what other additional labels they want to wear (Doctor, Lawyer, policeman, middle class, hipster, thug, ignorant, etc. and there’s others too but I know society is so sensitive lately so I’ll leave it that).  Remember, you are what you say you are, what labels have you chosen to love and be proud of?  Some kids just copy their parents labels to wear, others choose a different path;  but the idea is the same;  these labels dictate our lives either because they motivate us to want to fit comfortably in a labeled box, or because we despise the idea of being a certain label, or we work to avoid a certain label.  Either way, in this day and age and in this American society, Labels run our lives.  This country should be called United States of Brands & Labels.

We are trained to keep up with the Jones’s, when kids go back to school, they will talk about what they got on Christmas, and our child mustn’t be left out!  So we buy, we buy, and we buy, and we spend hours looking through coupons or deals, to save us worthless paper with the appearance of laughable discounts on things you really don’t need, for a season that has no other true value but to go broke while helping corporations get rich.  Then our pride gets in the way, we don’t ever want to be seen as being poor, so we spend on things to prove to our children, to our neighbors, to our coworkers, to ourselves; it’s always a performance to prove something to our own pride.

Know this, what children receive from their parents and other doting people will either motivate them to move forward a bit, take them backwards, or keep them stagnant.  I am a caring parent, moved less by TV and Media and what the jones have, and more by a moral compass that tells me that a large portion of who my child will become is solely dependent on what I put into her mind and idle hands (Or rather what I ALLOW to be put into her mind and Hands).  I want my kids to always move forward, grow, learn, experiment, and evolve because all of these things will strengthen their overall character (And doing these things can be quite fun!)  girl or boy, if I show a kid how magnets and electricity, and photosynthesis works, they will enjoy it.  Something is wrong in that child’s environment if they are turned off by fascinating new usages for the mind). Whereas handing my kids reality TV, .pfft.. just Mass media in general will only cheapen her character.   Building Blocks, Art supplies, Construction kits, science tools, books, because these things can be just as much fun, gifts made by hand, etc. .   We control what the next 2 generations will become.  Are we creating more brain dead slaves to green paper and mindless TV?

There is no avoiding commercialism as it is shoved in our face everywhere we look:. on TV, Radio, Movies (Ad placement), Youtube, email and web surfing with ads everywhere you look, Amazon, Ebay, on buildings, billboards, people on corners flipping a sign.   Even Sprout (Children’s TV network channel) has so many commercials that keep our kids drawn in and diligently attentive to their marketing aimed at children.  This is where we leave our kids to be parked in front of some screen or otherwise “Jacked-In”.  The TV Set is an especially powerful weapon used to brainwash, condition and dumb down our kids.

No, there is no way to avoid exposure to this sick system we live in (Babylon, Sodom, America, whatever you want to call it.)  But that doesn’t mean I can’t point out things I know are happening on an economic, political, religious, and socially macroscopic level.  The constant celebration and indulgence of consumerism is indeed unavoidable. Our kids are becoming more intelligent at an earlier age, let’s take this opportunity to raise awareness of the system that is built to ensnare young and dull minds, and the earlier we do it the sooner we arm our children with knowledge and awareness.  They are tomorrow’s leaders.  I know what the end goal of these influences really is; to keep the masses dumb, sick, poor, and at war.  So I will continue to speak to my children about it so at the very least they know that the #1 guy in their life feels “this way particular way” about whatever it is that is killing society, be it consumerism, religion, oil, war, government, television, or music as all of these things are created to keep us under the thumb of a 1%.

When my parents were young there was no internet, so most of the lies being told to them by corporations, TV, and politics were almost believable; and what my parents did discover they stood up and was willing to fight the system over.  Black Panthers, Young Lords and what have you.  but now in 2015 we’re in an age of information, there is no need for us to continue the labels, the conditioning, the falsehoods of outrageously incorrect text in history books, the insult to our intelligence by media and news sources that are handed to us daily.  And what does our generation do with arguably the most powerful creation man has ever conceived to assist in the evolution of human knowledge and consciousness (The Internet)?  How would the world change if we dropped a Smart Phone with 2015 internet connection into the hands of a man in America 200 years ago?  I bet they wouldn’t be using it for games or Netflix.

I know for many, life is so much easier if you keep your head down, don’t bring attention to yourself, just do what everyone else is doing, go to school, get a job, go to church, spend most of your life working, pay off school, buy stuff you don’t need and work some more to give the system back the money they lent to you with interest; yet THIS is preferable to actually facing the truth about the world we live in.

Technically you are never truly getting paid because; your check only gives you  worthless currency that will be spent  ultimately giving these banks back their money, vicariously all money belongs to the bank.   So did you ever really get paid or are you caught in a vicious loop that sucks you dry?  The corporations lean on the banks to be successful and eventually all of their money they receive from consumers like you goes back to the banks or to other corporations who are dependent on the banking system.  In the end more money will be printed to continue this cycle that keeps us all in debt.  We prefer to stay ignorant as this idea is just too big for our small minds to consider.   We must do what everyone else is doing to stay with the flow of traffic on a depressive road that ends right over the horizon in a 1000ft high cliff.  In that respect most of the people are like lemmings, blindly following the rest to their death.  Meanwhile we miss every opportunity to truly live.

Now we have so much information at our fingertips, it is shameful that we don’t pick our heads up and look around, question things, and never be afraid to go against the grain.     My parents couldn’t see this sick issue for what it was (a way to keep people, dumb, blind, sick, and broke; always at odds or at war with others.  I’m a parent that can research and teach my kids about the world I brought them into.  Much was hidden and never confirmed when my parents were younger, now we can see more truth than ever before  about a system created to subjugate and kill us.

How do we tackle a systemic issue that is firmly planted in our European/American society.  This systemic issue is an integral part of lives now, via corporate conditioning over generations.  These corporations fool us into thinking being a consumer is normal.  How many families spend what they don’t have because we wouldn’t think of taking away “Christmas” which has nothing to do with the story of Jesus” or any kind of Christ.  Maybe it was once, but definitely not now.  The middle and lower class can almost or will go broke spending a grand on toys that do nothing for a child’s mind, but will serve to keep them allured by being connected on-line; phones, computers, tablets, drones, or whatever.

Ultimately my girls will pick a man that has many of my qualities, so I strive every day, to teach them my example, what I know now, including exposing my own mistakes, and how this world has me asphyxiated because like them I am a product of my environment and overcoming those inherited labels can be very difficult.  Hopefully my generation teaches the next about the coming consumer and online dependency paradigm shift, which will reshape society according to the progression of its “Wants”.

I write this but does this mean I am perfect I have all the answers? No.  just like the story of Christ I am just a human man in this moment living within human constraints and confines.  Just like my creator I possess both sides of the scale good and evil alike.  Just like the stories of our creator I can be vengeful, jealous, sad, and angry but these things too are only facets of the source energy  and it is infarct these negative emotions that contribute to the “perfection” that is our creator.  I am not perfect according to the basic understanding of the word, but in not being perfect I find perfection within myself.   Like every human I make faulter, but my point is that just because I possess fallibility (or am a product of a sick system as my parents were before me), does that make me a hypocrite for telling my child what to avoid?

No. Why? Because I now realize how the past generations before me have been duped into contracting the same sickness and ignorantly passing it all on to us.  I can’t go backwards to change the world I grew up in, but our children can change the world right now.   Let’s teach our children that reward comes from work, not just from being young and cute.  Reward is not dictated by a day that corporate entities have deemed necessary under the guise of being “Holy” (People are such suckers for mainstream European religion, but that’s another topic).  I do indeed buy gifts for my girls all year long, but I abhor the idea that during a consumer holiday I am guilted into participating; and by the way, this is done by targeting our kids with their psychological warfare.

The real ones getting any reward are the men-in-charge of money and all the things money can buy.  Our children see on TV all of the beautiful people with ridiculous amounts of money, and/or a life in front of a television camera, midday Soap Operas showing near full on Sex Scenes and we ourselves allow them to watch Empire, reality TV, American Idol which all train our kids to keep an eye on the TV.   The TV has irrevocably become the center of ours homes now, we’ve been brainwashed so successfully; plain and simple whether we want to admit or not it’s Money Worship in a church of Brands & labels and all of its holidays pagan.

I personally think if we’re going to entertain this faux holiday then the gifts we give should be for intellectual growth, or serve some purpose other than playing with Barbie and her baby that pees; which only gets our young ones wanting to emulate mom, and have a baby ASAP.  Of Course as they grow up that idea is always in their head leading to poor decision making, way too young.  Better gifts that show that more than spoiling your kid, you care about what they will become and how you contribute to that end. What we give our children to do with idle time or hands in their spare time are just as important as the school environment they attend.

Because my children mean so much to me, I feel anxious as to awaken my family to this ever present poison that trains us to be mindless consumers, a mindless work force, a mindless society.  But to do so would take a complete re-education; undoubtedly I’m sure I’d meet with resistance.

I think there should be a certain criteria that must be met before people can have children.  If you have your life together, can provide not only money but intellectual stimulation, and have a commitment to both for the sake of your child, that would save the next generation from kids who were raised poorly.  Doing this would assist in ultimately rearing a more stable, responsible, and intelligent society tomorrow.  But we can’t educate our kids if we are just as ignorant as they.

Why does society continue with their falsehoods, practices, and belief systems, Watch  this: 5 Monkeys-