Just Stop

Last night my girlfriend had shown me a disturbing picture that a child in grade six had drawn. It was a picture of a Converse shoe. Apparently this child is obsessed with the brand and their product. This disturbs me so because it just goes to show that consumer brand brainwashing is still affecting young children as it was when I was young. Children should not be branding themselves. Children should not be drawing Converse shoes when asked to draw something straight out of their imagination.

I highly doubt that this child knows that her Converse shoes are owned by Nike and were made in China. I wonder if this child's parents are aware that they are supporting economic growth in China while they pissing all over themselves. American capitalists are the least patriotic people in North America. It's ironic that they have the "Patriot Chuck" (a shoe that resembles an American flag)- when this shoe is anything but. A rich man owns a company, Nike, and has his shoes made as cheaply as possible in China. He then sells his shoes at an extremely high rate compared to the actual cost of manufacturing to Americans who can barely afford them because they have a hard time finding a job. Where are all the jobs? Oh yeah, China.

People need to start teaching their children that we need to rely on locally made materials and necessities, like shoes. The future is local sustainability and local networking. We must put an end to pigs taking the ground out from underneath us. They are killing us by taking our jobs away and teaching our youngest generations to buy young, as to ingrain the idea at a young age that the current method of North American consumerism is Ok. Being branded at such a young age is like offering a child meth. Once you have them hooked on a nostalgic habit that they use to identify themselves with, the habit will slowly grow into a cancer that will enslave us all. We need to stop buying products from the swine who don't give two shits about North American citizens. They only want to profit as much as they can while they can. It is up to us, the consumers, to decide how long they can get away with it, if at all.

Why don't we understand that we can make a world of difference in bettering our lives and the lives of our fellow citizens by making simple decisions such as boycotting all Chinese made products? Targeted boycotting can change our lives so dramatically. We have the power. Take your eyes off of the spectacle and see things for what they really are. Cut yourself off from the illusion and make a real difference in your world - a positive difference. If we all start to have a conscious approach to consuming and what the consequences of our actions are, we will realize that anything is possible and that we, the people, are those who are in control of our world - not the corporate swine who are enslaving us and dumbing us down. Think - all we have to do is stop. Once we stop giving into their game, we win.