Are we free? Or just puppets that work to simulate Life that we do not really Live?
2006-08-15 01:06:36 · 15 answers · asked by NIL 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
I vote for puppets!!!! I am surprised we can breathe oxygen without someone charging a fee for it....
2006-08-15 01:10:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would say to a great extent many of us are becoming slaves of consumerism, which is not quite the same thing. If someone had told me perhaps as recently as 10 years ago, and certainly 20 years ago how much money I'd be earning today I would have figured that I'd be rich and I'm certainly far from it. The number of things such as consumer electronics and other luxury items that we all seem to feel that we cannot do without is staggering.
2006-08-15 01:41:28 · answer #2 · answered by ligoneskiing 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
we are not slaves of capitalism. We are slaves of our greed and vanity. People work hard for the betterment of quality of life. But then question as you have rightfully asked are we living the life?. Longtime ago there was statement in Readers Digest that Japan prospers but Japanese do not (This is not to ridicule anybody but just a reference to the subject of the question).
2006-08-18 21:57:13 · answer #3 · answered by rajiv s 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Walmart wants a store no further than 6 miles from anyone's home. Everywhere you look, some one is trying to sell you something you don't need. We just use each other to live, no matter the cost. People are walking advertisements. Be careful who you support.
2006-08-15 01:23:10 · answer #4 · answered by Brad Beerdrinker 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on what you think you are. As for me, i don't consider myself slave of capitalism, i don't care. Ask yourself, do you care, do you feel like a puppet?? Everything is a question of point of view.
2006-08-15 01:11:38 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes
2006-08-15 10:20:49 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, we are slaves to working for a living.
If only someone would give us the money to live or just give us food and stuff for free.
That would be great.
But who would be stupid enough to do the work to provide us with that, while we sit on our @sses and play video games?
No Capitalist, that's for sure.
2006-08-15 01:22:03 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yep! some are slaves to Capitalism! and it sucks!
2006-08-15 01:11:51 · answer #8 · answered by comingofage03 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, I think Capitalism is really our slave. It does exactly what we –Â collectively – want it to. And we have no one but ourselves to blame for its excesses and absurdities.
2006-08-15 08:54:39 · answer #9 · answered by Keither 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah right, we determine our destiny.
We decide what we want to buy and the "captains of industry" meet our demand by giving us what we want.
2006-08-15 01:12:58 · answer #10 · answered by silverbolt_64 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋