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Álvaro Rausell
Prendergast
English 10
10/10/2014
Fellow minds, slaves of a consumerist society
You are slaves, slaves of what is on your own pocket. Unnecessary products that
control you and tell you how to act and live, who are just a mere illusion made in your
brains. You are not a free individual, but just a bee, controlled by what you think you
need. Your necessity is not the main motive to buy, but your own desire, a very jealous
and strong desire. It wants not what you have, but what you do not. You, shameless and
pitiful individuals, are lost in a world in which your social status depends not upon your
actions, but your possessions.
People like you, Mr. Prendergast, do not understand that there is no necessity to
obtain new goods while your current are still functioning. Tell me, Sir; was it necessary
to buy a new phone? Your actions not harm only your mental ecosystem, with your
insatiable need for new goods, but also, it harms the people around you, pushing them
to become alike. You, as a teacher, have to become a good example for the generation
to come, otherwise only fool individuals will rule the world tomorrow. Fool and weak
individuals, on which temptation will act so furiously, that the strongest of them could
be corrupted with ease. Tell me, Antonio, did you need those new shoes? Are you old
ones broken? I expected that, “are you saying that the animal whose fur the shoe is
made of died unnecessarily”? You are destroying our world, the natural order of things,
as well as you are not helping your family by spending their money ,which has been
gained with sweat and blood to grant you food, to just improve your social status.
Think about this, young individuals, so that tomorrow the sun will not shine in a
civilization of consumerism, full of fools, but in a world in which people are strong
enough to be able to settle their priorities. If you do not believe me now, someday you
will, by finding yourself sleeping on a bridge begging for food. Then, and only then,
you will think, “Did I really need a new phone? I could have bought food with it.”

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  • 1. Álvaro Rausell Prendergast English 10 10/10/2014 Fellow minds, slaves of a consumerist society You are slaves, slaves of what is on your own pocket. Unnecessary products that control you and tell you how to act and live, who are just a mere illusion made in your brains. You are not a free individual, but just a bee, controlled by what you think you need. Your necessity is not the main motive to buy, but your own desire, a very jealous and strong desire. It wants not what you have, but what you do not. You, shameless and pitiful individuals, are lost in a world in which your social status depends not upon your actions, but your possessions. People like you, Mr. Prendergast, do not understand that there is no necessity to obtain new goods while your current are still functioning. Tell me, Sir; was it necessary to buy a new phone? Your actions not harm only your mental ecosystem, with your insatiable need for new goods, but also, it harms the people around you, pushing them to become alike. You, as a teacher, have to become a good example for the generation to come, otherwise only fool individuals will rule the world tomorrow. Fool and weak individuals, on which temptation will act so furiously, that the strongest of them could be corrupted with ease. Tell me, Antonio, did you need those new shoes? Are you old ones broken? I expected that, “are you saying that the animal whose fur the shoe is made of died unnecessarily”? You are destroying our world, the natural order of things, as well as you are not helping your family by spending their money ,which has been gained with sweat and blood to grant you food, to just improve your social status.
  • 2. Think about this, young individuals, so that tomorrow the sun will not shine in a civilization of consumerism, full of fools, but in a world in which people are strong enough to be able to settle their priorities. If you do not believe me now, someday you will, by finding yourself sleeping on a bridge begging for food. Then, and only then, you will think, “Did I really need a new phone? I could have bought food with it.”