According to many, capitalism causes consumerism and with that exploitation. One may cope with this by trying to establish ways of handling its perils. Exploitation of consumers and resources probably often leads to both illusions and disillusionment. One may ask if we could make the better of both, or, I mean, let that lead to problem understanding and ease instead. It's a good question, then, and I would love it if we could find a real solution. But, you know there's probably not enough capacity in people for the kinds of networking that would take, or is there?
I think that in the sense there would be, those capacities usually are given other priorities. But people who start rebellions against such priority systems can exist, from time to time. A fairly resent one is Mahatma Gandhi.
Most other ones (correct me if you think I’m wrong) are earlier than commercialism, have started religions, which do much harm in causing wars, in spite (or even because) of noble intentions of their founders. ... Perhaps it's a bit thanks to commercialism that there is less of that kind of militant thinking now days. I mean it's peaceful exploitation rather than that kinds of power struggles between war lords, of the kind that hardly would be pertaining to democracies, which perhaps cannot work without a possibility for those who have that ambition to find power other, ways. ...
There, of course, we have another dilemma don't we? Commercial possibilities for ambitions compete with political ambitions, which could perhaps otherwise be more fatal. Couldn't they? ... Only possibly not, but in that case, probably there would have to be something telling those people (who I believe cannot always be pinpointed who they are) that there are other ways to power!
Is this the only good way to view things?
