Saturday, June 07, 2003

Activism Things To Do in 2003-04 Financial Year

Stop consuming content and start creating it.
By stop consuming I don't mean stop buying, or stop viewing, listening, reading, gaming. I mean start approaching the music, films, books, games, etc., as the outward manifestation of someone's creativity rather than as a product to be used up and thrown away. Start a blog! Give yourself permission to do this. You don't have to be good, you just have to do it. If you're already doing this, do it more. Encourage children to do this, however and wherever you encounter them..

· Encourage your employees and co-workers and neighbors to be creative [Corante Ideas]

Herd-Like Desssiresss
Most of us have a herd-like desire to fit in, to be appropriately dressed (which means to be wearing much the same as what everyone else in our group is wearing), to keep up with the Joneses - and, increasingly, to get ahead of the Joneses. Unhappiness sustains economic growth. The marketers and advertisers have to play on, and play up, our discontents, holding out the promise that another tub of margarine - or a Rolex watch - will bring us to nirvana.
· The truth that economists forgot: we're human [SMH ]