Actually there is a very direct answer to the bulk of the questions and concerns people raise here, the problem is getting more people to hear it and practice it. Yet there is great freedom and power over your own life once you embrace it.
This has been around for quite some time and every once in a while I find I have to remind people it exists. The website is useful, the PBS show/tape even more so for many.
The biggest point for many is: The POWER is YOURS.
affluenza.org/
Af-flu-en-za n. 1. The bloated, sluggish and unfulfilled feeling that results from efforts to keep up with the Joneses. 2. An epidemic of stress, overwork, waste and indebtedness caused by dogged pursuit of the American Dream. 3. An unsustainable addiction to economic growth.
This is so important I think I will post it as a separate thread and in other related tribes.
This has been around for quite some time and every once in a while I find I have to remind people it exists. The website is useful, the PBS show/tape even more so for many.
The biggest point for many is: The POWER is YOURS.
affluenza.org/
Af-flu-en-za n. 1. The bloated, sluggish and unfulfilled feeling that results from efforts to keep up with the Joneses. 2. An epidemic of stress, overwork, waste and indebtedness caused by dogged pursuit of the American Dream. 3. An unsustainable addiction to economic growth.
This is so important I think I will post it as a separate thread and in other related tribes.
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Re: One (often ignored) answer. Take back your life, help the environment, save money.
Wed, June 7, 2006 - 2:16 PMits a great link, thank you for posting it. Should be regular reading for everyone, as there is so much info to learn from it!
&&&I would like to add here a reply I posted to the same post, as it is more appropriate here in the voluntary simplicity tribe, - so sorry if you get to see it twice!&&& :
On a positive note I can report that I have last month been able to fulfill a life time dream, and have moved into a little house that is heated with a wood stove, and is listed as a national heritage site, as a "selbstversorger-siedlung", which would be translated to "selfsufficiency-settlement".
I am now experiencing first hand how much I have forgotten about recycling, saving, selfsufficiency.. My learning curve is high at the moment, and I am enjoying every minute of it.
I have land to grow what I wish, and could keep animals or the like. the options are myriad, and the choices a little overwhelming at this point..
My children too are learning now, before they step out into (Swiss) society, similarly consumerist as USA, although perhaps more environmentally concious.. to save, conserve, re-use, recycle and basically think twice ot three times before getting a thing or then having to dispose/reuse etc..
Its a small step for me, but an even smaller step for mankind.. (?)
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wish me luck guys, and keep teaching me! . I'll be reading your posts and growing as a person..
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Re: One (often ignored) answer. Take back your life, help the environment, save money.
Wed, June 7, 2006 - 7:45 PMActually in your country there are, or at least used to be, several voluntary simplicity groups. I believe one example cited in either the first or second affluenza tv show was in your country. -
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Thu, June 8, 2006 - 12:35 PMreally? How interesting!- I grew up here, and there were a few "Aussteiger" (lit.Stepping-off-person=getting out of the rat race) then, but I have been away for 20 years and at leat around Zurich there seem to be hardly any left.
I know of a Yamagishi Community (Japanese Philosphy Group, believes in communal property, no money, farming for existence) nearby,- but thats about it.
Life certainly seems much more commercialised and much less idealistc now.. -
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Re: One (often ignored) answer. Take back your life, help the environment, save money.
Fri, June 9, 2006 - 4:02 AMYep, you might try to see if any libraries near you have the tape or dvd and find the group they mention. I know at least one of the main people died a while back but I believe the group should still be around.
In any case every library should have copies of both videos, to not have them is a crime. (opinion obviously)
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Re: One (often ignored) answer. Take back your life, help the environment, save money.
Sun, June 11, 2006 - 5:24 AMdo you remember any more details? Its hard to go search on so little, I dont even know the name of the group (in German?).. But id like to give it a try. -
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Sun, June 11, 2006 - 6:17 AMYou would have to watch the tapes, the name is listed in the end credits and there is a section about them in the first tape.
I won't have time to look at them again myself for several weeks because this is the busy season for me with crops and faires.
I only have it on VHS so it is hard to scan through.
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