Getting a little philosophical here, lol. If the mods feel this is the wrong place to have this thread, please move it.
But seriously, Michaels death has done more to me then just make me sad. It made me really think. Think about the world we live in and how it has become. And every time I go over it the word "consumer" comes to my mind.
We humans are consumers. That is what we do, and probably why we are here. We consume food, air, space, time, things, even people. We breed and we continue doing what the people prior to our generation did, consume.
In the end, all what we consume are products. Either products of nature or products of man. It doesn't matter, it becomes a consumption either way. The entertainment business is no different from the food business. They are both based on human consumption. And they profit from it. That is why the businesses has become so huge, along with other consumption markets-
Everything we need, someone will make money of. And people always seem to need more, and that is something a business selling you the product will exploit.
I think Michael Jackson's life and death is a great example to demonstrate how this mass worldwide consumption will be the end of humanity.
We consume all the natural resources on this planet, we even kill for it. We call all these things life, looking for happiness, reality and so on. But we all are missing the bigger picture.
There is no reason for all this consumption to exist other then the need to survive. And that is why we have all these bad habits from, because we have the mind of a consumer. But we forget ourselves and the consumption becomes a mental addiction sometimes.
Our environment is suffering from our massive consumption. 1 billion people are starving because we profit on hunger and the richest can eat all they want, while the poor can die from hunger. All because of our selfish need to consume. Because we think that this lifestyle of consumption is going to make us happy.
One of the reasons why I think celebrities often die young, is because they get sucked in by the masses need to consume what they deliver. It is as if they have to give this to us, because we need it and they can also become greater consumers if they deliver. They get rich. It is a vicious little circle we have created for ourselves.
I think part of the reason why Michael had to die young, is because he was put in a place where he was no longer a human being, but a product for us to consume.
And after he died, I feel ashamed that I even after the trial. I thought of only one thing. When will he perform again? When will he release an album, not thinking about just how broken he was inside from the trial. My consumer mind got the best of me.
I did not need for Michael to come back. The only thing I needed was to know he was alright, because I cared for his well being.
But I still had this need to see him be an artist.
This is my lesson from all this. It has been like this for many years but Michaels death finally made me realize.
We all need to stop. We need to stop living like we do. We need to stop thinking about material happiness like we do now. The world is dying because of it, and people die from it.
I don't need to eat as much as I can. There are millions of kids out there who have nothing.
How can I spend money on things I don't need and how can I throw away food I know people need. How can I ask of someone who have gone through pain to make me happy?
I won't. I won't be like that ever again. I don't want people to die because of my needs.
I have known this for a long time now, but it is now I understand that the time has come to act. Before it is to late. This is it. That was Michaels message for the tour. He was right. We are running out of time.
But seriously, Michaels death has done more to me then just make me sad. It made me really think. Think about the world we live in and how it has become. And every time I go over it the word "consumer" comes to my mind.
We humans are consumers. That is what we do, and probably why we are here. We consume food, air, space, time, things, even people. We breed and we continue doing what the people prior to our generation did, consume.
In the end, all what we consume are products. Either products of nature or products of man. It doesn't matter, it becomes a consumption either way. The entertainment business is no different from the food business. They are both based on human consumption. And they profit from it. That is why the businesses has become so huge, along with other consumption markets-
Everything we need, someone will make money of. And people always seem to need more, and that is something a business selling you the product will exploit.
I think Michael Jackson's life and death is a great example to demonstrate how this mass worldwide consumption will be the end of humanity.
We consume all the natural resources on this planet, we even kill for it. We call all these things life, looking for happiness, reality and so on. But we all are missing the bigger picture.
There is no reason for all this consumption to exist other then the need to survive. And that is why we have all these bad habits from, because we have the mind of a consumer. But we forget ourselves and the consumption becomes a mental addiction sometimes.
Our environment is suffering from our massive consumption. 1 billion people are starving because we profit on hunger and the richest can eat all they want, while the poor can die from hunger. All because of our selfish need to consume. Because we think that this lifestyle of consumption is going to make us happy.
One of the reasons why I think celebrities often die young, is because they get sucked in by the masses need to consume what they deliver. It is as if they have to give this to us, because we need it and they can also become greater consumers if they deliver. They get rich. It is a vicious little circle we have created for ourselves.
I think part of the reason why Michael had to die young, is because he was put in a place where he was no longer a human being, but a product for us to consume.
And after he died, I feel ashamed that I even after the trial. I thought of only one thing. When will he perform again? When will he release an album, not thinking about just how broken he was inside from the trial. My consumer mind got the best of me.
I did not need for Michael to come back. The only thing I needed was to know he was alright, because I cared for his well being.
But I still had this need to see him be an artist.
This is my lesson from all this. It has been like this for many years but Michaels death finally made me realize.
We all need to stop. We need to stop living like we do. We need to stop thinking about material happiness like we do now. The world is dying because of it, and people die from it.
I don't need to eat as much as I can. There are millions of kids out there who have nothing.
How can I spend money on things I don't need and how can I throw away food I know people need. How can I ask of someone who have gone through pain to make me happy?
I won't. I won't be like that ever again. I don't want people to die because of my needs.
I have known this for a long time now, but it is now I understand that the time has come to act. Before it is to late. This is it. That was Michaels message for the tour. He was right. We are running out of time.
