OK OK HERE I AM!!

Ok so I promised a hybrid of the two themes i discussed in my last (last) blog. So here I am to explain that process.

We live in a consumer-based society and I don't think enough people realize the power the consumer has over the market. IT IS NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND. For some reason we have been tricked into believing that we are the enslavement of the business. In actuality, we are the leaders of the business. We are the ones who demand products, therefore helping any given business to succeed.

Ex: If nobody drank milk, the milk industry would go under. Correct? Who else would fund the business other than the people demanding the product?

So the women in the suffrage movement performed hunger strikes and the blacks in the South performed sit-ins. One was a hhhuuuggee sacrifice, while the latter crunched the economy so much that businesses were forced to change their laws and finally desegregate their companies.

Now people always complain about stuff... Just stuff in general. But nothing is done to fix it. We've become huge complainers.

I am giving everyone here an easy way to help fix the problems...

POINT: If you do not agree with something, don't fund it.

what i'm saying is: BOYCOTT! Boycott everything!! Anything that is on your supermarket shelves that you do not agree with, DO NOT BUY IT! It really is as simple as that. Let everyone else you know around you why you do not buy it and encourage them not to buy it either.

My general list of boycotts:

1. Most things Made in China (although I do buy used goods since it already made itself into the demand pool by someone else)

2. Wal-Mart ( watch Wal-Mart: High Cost of Low Prices)

3. Plastic Bottles (Watch Tapped)

4. McDonalds (or any other fast food for that matter)

5. Most meat (I say MOST because I am not against eating meat, I'm just against the industrialization of the process our meat goes through now, thus making it a non-enjoyable experience.)

6. Milk (read here)

Among a great deal of other things.

And I know I am only one person, so what can I do, right? I think that is the most dangerous way to think. It is also the ideology that keeps us in this vicious circle of problems we complain about everyday and do nothing about.

Ok so that's my general manifestation on the subject. Expect random posts on what I boycott and why you should, too.

Now You Know. Take back your rights.