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'''DIY•wiki''' is resource for The Consumer Resistance to Modernity. ''See'' — [https://dstall.com/MOD/Main_Page '''MOD•wiki'''] for more information on Modernity, its nature, effects on humanity and the Earth, and the need for Consumer Resistance. | '''DIY•wiki''' is resource for The Consumer Resistance to Modernity. ''See'' — [https://dstall.com/MOD/Main_Page '''MOD•wiki'''] for more information on Modernity, its nature, effects on humanity and the Earth, and the need for Consumer Resistance. | ||
DIY (Do It Yourself) is about being productive instead of consumptive. The American Way (aka [https://dstall.com/MOD/The_System The System] of [https://dstall.com/MOD/Organized_crime Organized crime]) feeds on the consumption of the many, after ownership of production has been siezed by the few, in order to enrich the few at the expense of the many and the natural world. This is actually the way of [https://dstall.com/MOD/Capitalism Capitalism] that has been manipulatively and deceitfully marketed as The American Way, “The Highest Standard of Living in the World”. | DIY (Do It Yourself) is about being productive instead of consumptive. The American Way (aka [https://dstall.com/MOD/The_System The System] of [https://dstall.com/MOD/Organized_crime Organized crime]) feeds on the consumption of the many, after ownership of production has been siezed by the few, in order to enrich the few at the expense of the many and the natural world. This is actually the way of [https://dstall.com/MOD/Capitalism Capitalism] that has been manipulatively and deceitfully marketed as The American Way, “The Highest Standard of Living in the World”, so high in fact that it is unsustainable, using up more than US share of Earth's resources at a much higher rate than anywhere else on the planet. Americans alone (without other 1st or 2nd world nations included) with only 5% of the world population exploits 24% of the worlds energy, meaning it would take nearly 5 Earths in order for all Earthlings to live The American Way, yet that is what USA is exporting to the world. The average American consumes 2x a Japanese, 6x a Mexican, 13x a Chinese, 31x an Indian, 128x a Bangladeshi, 307x a Tanzanian, 370x an Ethiopian. | ||
[https://public.wsu.edu/~mreed/380American%20Consumption.htm Consumption by the United States]<br> | |||
[https://internationalbusinessguide.org/hungry-planet/ Hungry Planet: Consumption Around the Globe]<br> | |||
[https://css.umich.edu/publications/factsheets/sustainability-indicators/us-environmental-footprint-factsheet U.S. Environmental Footprint Factsheets]<br> | |||
[https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/american-consumption-habits/ Use It and Lose It: The Outsize Effect of U.S. Consumption on the Environment]<br> | |||
The capitalist way is American because —<br> | The capitalist way is American because —<br> | ||
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DIY•wiki : consumer resistance resource — compiled by D.Stall, created June 2022
DIY•wiki is resource for The Consumer Resistance to Modernity. See — MOD•wiki for more information on Modernity, its nature, effects on humanity and the Earth, and the need for Consumer Resistance.
DIY (Do It Yourself) is about being productive instead of consumptive. The American Way (aka The System of Organized crime) feeds on the consumption of the many, after ownership of production has been siezed by the few, in order to enrich the few at the expense of the many and the natural world. This is actually the way of Capitalism that has been manipulatively and deceitfully marketed as The American Way, “The Highest Standard of Living in the World”, so high in fact that it is unsustainable, using up more than US share of Earth's resources at a much higher rate than anywhere else on the planet. Americans alone (without other 1st or 2nd world nations included) with only 5% of the world population exploits 24% of the worlds energy, meaning it would take nearly 5 Earths in order for all Earthlings to live The American Way, yet that is what USA is exporting to the world. The average American consumes 2x a Japanese, 6x a Mexican, 13x a Chinese, 31x an Indian, 128x a Bangladeshi, 307x a Tanzanian, 370x an Ethiopian.
Consumption by the United States
Hungry Planet: Consumption Around the Globe
U.S. Environmental Footprint Factsheets
Use It and Lose It: The Outsize Effect of U.S. Consumption on the Environment
The capitalist way is American because —
1) USA had a Second American Revolution (Civil War) in which industrial monied powers of the North squashed agrarian monied powers (planters) of the South, thereby instituting a New American Culture of consumerism,
2) USA exited World War I and World War II unscathed to become the industrial global superpower, that continues to hold liberal hegemony over the world today,
3) USA is the largest consumer market in the world, with the largest military in the world (and in human history), which itself is a huge consumer market (foreign military bases are like small cities that boost economies of foreign nations),
4) USA is a leader of technological innovation by way of US military, taxpayer funded RAND corporation research and development, R&D from which many to most technological consumer products are created, and
5) American products, especially entertainment (movies and music) are distributed worldwide and have become a source of foreign emulation of The American Way in nations that have been westernized or that are westernizing.
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