Perhaps, turning our country into the nanny state it has become is necessary to save the millions of consumers who are genetically inclined not to care about anyone but themselves. Perhaps we are fighting natural selection by supporting a genetic trait whos weakness requires the support of others to survive. Instead of only the fittest surviving, we are encouraging the consumer traits to thrive with our craddle to grave support. Perhaps we have to. For the sake of compassion. Funding consumers at every turn to survive in a capitalistic land built by producers. Perhaps we don't have a choice. As a compassionate society. If someone is born into producer or consumer status, perhaps we should stop trying so hard to bring turn them into something they are not and accept that they are genetic consumers and we must take care of them for the sake of compassion and fighting the forces of Darwin.
Hi Happy,
I noticed this old post and thought I'd comment up here so it didn;t get lost. What you are seeing is reflected very clearly in MBTI personality types. 40% are SJ, those are your producers, 40% are SP, those are your natural born party gone wild consumers, 10% are NTs-you and all you dr buds, scientists in general, and 10% are NFs-the tree huggers, priests, artists and such.
so what happens is the SJs are engaged in an never ending battle to keep the SPs in line and be a contributing part of society and all the Ns just get stuck in the middle. Just ignore the Ns.
SPs live in the moment, are spontaneous, have very poor long term planning skills and are very impulsive. Coprorate america exploits this on every turn. Marketers love the SPs because they are EASY. They miss all the fine print, the interest rate increases, the late fees, the overdraft fees, the strings attached to any offer. They buy whatever pops into thier dumb little brains as soon as they see it and are the target of the vast majoirty of media communications.
Impulsivity appears to have a strong biological corrolate and when you combine that with someone who is very in touch with sensory information, its a party.
Is it wrong to exploit the biological imperfrections of the stupid SPs? In the past religion and societal pressure kept the guys more in line. Peer pressure can work really well on these guys. But nowdays we speak out of both sides of our mouths. "be a responsbile, contributing member of society" and "dont you want to buy this really cool thing?" which makes our 401Ks grow bigger as the corporate stocks rise due to thier consumerism. We kinda set them up for failure honestly.
I favor graduated adulthood where they have to earn rights to consume, and some level of protection for then from folks who financially prey on them. Did you know in greece no TV commercials are allowed that market to children?
