The Insidious Mechanics of Planned Obsolescence

Just ran across this brilliant documentary entitled Pyramids of Waste which you can view here: 

Pyramids of Waste (2010) from devoidion on Vimeo.

It describes in rage inciting detail, exactly how the consumer markets have been rigged through calculated and engineered finite life cycles built into each and every product. It's not necessarily so, that the enslaved of China and Asia build absolute rubbish products for exclusive Western markets. It's that these Asian factories are contracted through proxy by the respective home corporations to build them exactly that way. You see, the corporate predator mentality matches the marketing mindset of a drug dealer. The idea is to make the product attractive and pervade the environment with illustrative delusions of how their product can make life better. The product is indispensable and the endorsement of the clientele will reflect that reality with living testimonials. However, the bitter truth in both cases, is to hook the ignorant on their shite products. Then through monopolisation of the market, bleed that customer through repeat business. Once the victim is drained and reaches the end of their pre-directed life-cycle, they are discarded, and a new, well-trained replacement is secured. One well mind-saturated with adverts and seductive ploys to buy, buy, reproduce (just once) and die. Wash, rinse, repeat.

Am I above all this? No, much like you, I wage a constant, concerted and persistent fight against this form of economic warfare. Knowledge is key in making this struggle easier, as is learning to live simpler as the rest of the suffering world does. What also makes this battle progressively acquiescent quite simply, is this film. Which clearly delineates the vampiric minds involved in setting up a system that deliberately produces products destined for fast track straight to the dustbin. Then these same rapacious bastards have the stupidity to actually believe that the same conned customer-base and their friends will return to buy yet another produced by them.

We have the means within our very hands to turn this about in short order. Very simply we need to return to developing the skills to produce needed top shelf goods at a very smart price. The internet is the common marketplace and all we have to do is host websites that advertise these products with consumer reviews of the associated products. If the 52" plasma telly is implanted with a fall-apart life span, then fuck it straight off. Instead, if you need one, purchase a reasonably sized model that has been rebuilt by a dedicated professional that will last for generations. 

Why do we put up with this and accept it as a normal, fair exchange at all? It's straight mental for fuck's sake, and intolerably unacceptable. The system is geared and ready for a conga line of suckers all queuing up to dispense money for well advertised, shiny rubbish. Most of which has been engineered to make spying and gathering intelligence on you easier and permission-free. After all we've been indoctrinated to accept this as status quo, and those most roused to this will never depart its control. Mindless material acquisition and possession does just that, it possesses one to accept false value. It's a psychopathological addiction that has married one's personal value and happiness to synthesised material objects. One that now defines who that individual is and then alters their life to accommodate it.

Don't get me wrong, people everywhere should have the ability to acquire things in their life that enhance its enjoyment how they see fit. However when this becomes an obsession, the identity is sublimated and what is of true and real worth is diminished significantly. Live with what you truly need and eliminate wants, for if you distill that want to its essence it will summarily evaporate. These purveyors of the infernal light view us all as cheap commodities, and nothing more than expendable livestock. If we let them, and accept this, they'll build planned obsolescence into us all and our futures as well. There is no merit in being a perpetual sucker in a corporatised system of voluntary servitude and monopolised, corralled consumption. A slave knows no tomorrows and has a their destiny an ignominious death the weight less than a feather.

View this video, see for yourself and pass it along to others if you find it of value.