We look at existential arbitrage from the transition children have to undergo to become "adults" to perhaps reveal the mechanism more than would otherwise be teh case.
We explore the false economy through the continuous production process of the consumer we remain oblivious to when we get gold on life as a buyers journey.
We explore our roles as a vehicle of the transcendental claim made on time and how only a civilisational domain that potentialises the relationality otherwise reduced to want can create a change beyond the buyers journey set.
We discuss universal basic income ensures the continuing redundancy of people through the form of the consumer remaining transcendent, or a given when anything "universal" is touted.
We explore the economic multiplier of our redundancy through the trend of carnivore and whether this is a sign of a shifting ethos evocative of the "hunter gather".
The circular economy is sold as a way towards sustainability, but how sustainable can it be when the principle product our economisation produces is totally disregarded? We discuss.
22 min
About Global Pause - Rethink the Future
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We are consumers of life not its co-creators, so we are just givens. We are given credit for our wants and thats it. We consume our time as an economic good to no end. To see beyond the consumer is to…
see potential for change that would not just add value to the buyers journey called life, but unmarket it.