MINDFULNESS VIDEO SERIES (7): HOW THE MIND WORKS
- 3 years ago
In the last few decades society has been very strongly promoting this idea that people should not have any restraints and just follow any desire or idea that comes up in their mind. Why are others so eager to tell us what we should do? Is this for our benefit? Or is someone else benefitting when we cannot control our mind and desires?
For many thousands of years people lived in a very different way where life for the very large majority was very simple. They did not travel long distances nor were they shopping often or using many services. After World War I, corporations considered how they can overcome the threat of overproduction. They developed a manipulative psychological strategy. Paul Mazur of Lehman Brothers stated,
"We must shift America from a needs to a desires culture. People must be trained to desire, to want new things even before the old had been entirely consumed. We must shape a new mentality in America. Man's desires must overshadow his needs."
For many thousands of years people lived in a very different way where life for the very large majority was very simple. They did not travel long distances nor were they shopping often or using many services. After World War I, corporations considered how they can overcome the threat of overproduction. They developed a manipulative psychological strategy. Paul Mazur of Lehman Brothers stated,
"We must shift America from a needs to a desires culture. People must be trained to desire, to want new things even before the old had been entirely consumed. We must shape a new mentality in America. Man's desires must overshadow his needs."