Consumer society

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Alzheimer's Disease: Escaping Forgetting is Simple!

Nowadays, the likelihood of getting Alzheimer's disease is above fifty percent. It is commonly believed that Alzheimer's must be accepted as a side effect of our increased life expectancy. However, according to a German doctor, this is not because of how long we live, but rather how we live! Yet it would be so easy to stay mentally fit even into old age! not available online  

Homo Oeconomicus: The Great Cyber Battle for the World

In the last 50 years, an unholy alliance has formed: the union of ever-faster computer systems with a philosophy that regards human beings as greedy beasts, forever seeking their own advantage. Now they have combined to ensure ever more billions of profit for a tiny, powerful elite, and to make everyone connected to the internet the puppets of their own venal desires. Read more...

Motivation: Full Wallet, Empty Soul?

What really makes us happy at work and at home? You’ll be amazed: it’s not money – and that’s a scientific fact! Read more...

Globalisation: Overindulging on Wealth

More and more, cheaper and cheaper—globalisation is making it all possible. Yet this ‘dream’ of unlimited economic growth comes at a terrible price. We are suffocating the planet under a pile of rubbish, and ruining our health in the process. Read more...

Data Mining in the Internet

Social networks and online shopping are being abused to find out everything about us. Read more...

Money: "To increase one's possessions means to lose one's self..."

...said the Chinese Sage Lao Tse 2,500 years ago. Another quote from his contemporary, Confucius, confirms just how false the goals that our society prizes are: "The noble man uses his wealth to create his life. The common man uses his life to create wealth." Learn here how to deal with the theme "money or not money" without letting it consume your soul. Read more...