Ethics of Consumption - cultural capitalism

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1. the music is completely unnecessary.
2. Look it up. "Fair trade" is corrupt. We can do better.
3. music is gay
4. I would like to make reference to this video. Anyone knows about it? Thanks!
5. that's cool star bucks buys fair trade
6. i like ethical businesses      the point seems to be not to forget and be lost in the sense that charity is enough    need SERIOUS and Immediate MIND-set change to change foundational living ways in order to change structures which are consequences of forgetting our humanity      I like Starbucks and now learned that it is one of the largest buyers of fair trade coffee which will make me that much more happy when I buy coffee there       to me example of Catholic Charities is great or Doctors with Out Borders   or Mercy Ships     m problem is when failure of good leaders not to show how to bring foundational change to mind=set and group living's structures so, charity is on a crisis basis and not a devault, constant need     such an absence of presence to reality of one's humanity is a reflection of the ideologies, not just capitalism, around people with added confusion, exhaustion as well as helpful things     with capitalism the profit motive when unsupervised can create a  storm of cruelty by manipulating skillfully with psychology people's primal needs and hiding the truth and exhausting people with temptation or fear or awareness of the lack of great care for one person's physical humanity and physical needs for basic needs, including true safety and home belonging with others' who care with love vs. the pushing people to more levels of new exhaustion and difficulties where sometimes an only resource is if you are lucky and there's a non-profit or charity to give medical help or to donate food or to provide a safety net
7. I don't believe he doesn't knows about Hoppe's argumentative ethics. I would love to hear what has to say about it haha.
   Private property is the only possible way to avoid conflicts, this is non-sense.
8. I don't see any bad about this new form of capitalism.
   Take another example in Chipotle, their stuff is organic, there meat is raised in free-range, ethical environments. I'm even saying we need more of this new capitalism.
9. I think he said Gesture, not cluster.
10. Charity does not degrade and demoralize. The opposite of charity is theft. Theft degrades and demoralizes. Charity humanizes and inspires.
    
    I imagine This Commie thinks the ideology of private property is what caused or "allowed for" slavery (owning others as private property). If so, and Zizek believes it is immoral to use privet property to aid the ills of private property then the Revolutionaries in the American Civil War should not have used their weapons and blood to end slavery
11. One simple Idea, what if everything was free ??
12. I think Zizek's trying to say that what seems to be undermining efforts (the bad, immorality) is actually reinforcing them. We need a structural change, instead of something like charity that simply perpetuates it. Charity gives us an excuse to continue the harmful system that already caused the problems it works to fix to begin with, and it's simply relieving us from the guilt of this very point. That's why charity and societal reconstruction cannot truly co-exist
13. This video addresses some very real problems with the illusion of charity-by-consumerism, but leaves me conflicted as to what actions should actually be taken. I'm not sure exactly where the speaker was intending to lead the audience in the end (sounds like a communist or pseudo-communist state idea?), but I have a hard time thinking of charity as evil. You'd think people could carry out charity and societal reconstruction simultaneously... right?
14. It's like what Zizek describes "chocolate laxative" on different occasions.
15. APPLES Hi kiopio14, what I was trying to express in my comment was my amazement that the whole GM issue debate appears to have gone over the head of Slavoj and anyone associated with the cartoon. It is almost impossible to believe. Some people eat organic because they so totally understand the issues. Does anyone know how to contact Slavoj. I hope he will not be embarrassed by his crucial mistake and that he will be interested in learning. Try GMO Evidence dot com.
16. mmm... this video isn´t in favor of neo capitalism... the original video you can see on RSAnimation channel.....
17. Slow down there Slavoj !!!!!!, research GM food & Agroecology & start the cartoon again. As a matter of urgency read Seeds of Destruction by William Engdahl & The Shock Doctrine for a greater understanding of mutant capitalism. Also Raj Patel Stuffed & Starved. Have a look at the GRAIN web site and research seed supply. Please Slavoj start googling with due haste & research the subject!!!! I find it hard to believe that you never picked this up. Why? Google toxic soy impact asap!
18. Nice illustrations! Who was the artist who drew?
19. I agree entirely with this video. Starbuck's propaganda doesn't change the social reality of poverty for proles around the world. The solution to the injustices of bourgeoisie property relations is the systematic dismantling of the state apparatus. The state has always been a tool for the ruling class to oppress workers and divert the revolutionary rage that global capital perpetuates. Smash the boojwah state and force the capitalists to maintain order and adopt the burden of governance. 
20. watch the full video "First as Tragedy then as Farce" and you'll see he isn't actually calling for the creation of a totalitarian state!!He is primarily a philosopher so he isn't actually offering solutions but is instead taking a critical look at the way capitalism functions! Everyone seems to take for granted that this is the way society should function and I'm glad that there are people like Zizek who choose to highlight the hypocrisy that exists rather than just getting on with it