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People getting more and more matierialistic?

  • 11-05-2008 5:59pm
    #1
    Affable
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,212 ✭✭✭


    Are people getting more materialistic?
    I think there's a defensive insecurity about it personally. Sad the way society goes perhaps, what happened to 'a mans a man'.


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  • #2
    Random
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,080 ✭✭✭✭Random


    Cheese.


  • #3
    Adam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Adam


    Yes.

    Lock nao plz. kthxbai ^_^


  • #4
    Dord
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,817 ✭✭✭✭Dord


    Mirror wrote: »
    Yes.

    Lock nao plz. kthxbai ^_^

    + eleventy1 =)


  • #5
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,634 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    You only just noticeing this now...? It's been going on for the best part fo a decade!!

    Personally, I think the materlaistic boom has peaked. Partially because of the credit crunch, partially because people are becoming a little more skeptical and a little less ignorant towards the advertising they're bombarded with. We're more spiritual than we were in the past as well (and notice, I did NOT say religious).

    You'd have to be seriously insecure to be materistic nowadays, but tere are some incredibly insecure people out there these days.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • #6
    Jesus Wept
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpAcz2tKaSM


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  • #7
    javaboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,094 ✭✭✭✭javaboy


    OP can I have your money?


  • #8
    Sherifu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,727 ✭✭✭✭Sherifu


    *wallet inspector*


  • #9
    AngryBadger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,251 ✭✭✭AngryBadger


    Affable wrote: »
    what happened to 'a mans a man'.

    What???


  • #10
    Affable
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,212 ✭✭✭Affable


    Oh, I'm not advocating not caring at all about money. But the rhetoric has become more in your face, judging someons worth completely on it, and talking up the wealth of oneself and ones friends, and it seems to be more totally about money regardless of other concerns, sure people always had some aspect of matierialism but it has changed.


  • #11
    Adam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Adam


    Affable wrote: »
    Oh, I'm not advocating not caring at all about money. But the rhetoric has become more in your face, judging someons worth completely on it, and talking up the wealth of oneself and ones friends, and it seems to be more totally about money regardless of other concerns, sure people always had some aspect of matierialism but it has changed.
    It is always changing, slowly. What's your point?


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  • #12
    DanGerMus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,525 ✭✭✭DanGerMus


    But i need stuff be live and be happy, how else will people think i'm cool?


  • #13
    beautiation
    Closed Accounts Posts: 381 ✭✭beautiation


    The-Rigger wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpAcz2tKaSM
    Good example of materialisticness, looking like leather as she does.


  • #14
    Affable
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,212 ✭✭✭Affable


    Mirror wrote: »
    It is always changing, slowly. What's your point?

    That insecurity has increased , in part due to the media and advertising etc, trying to induce insecurity in the consumer.


  • #15
    Kold
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,778 ✭✭✭✭Kold


    Affable wrote: »
    what happened to 'a mans a man'.

    Gay?


  • #16
    Affable
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,212 ✭✭✭Affable


    Kold wrote: »
    Gay?

    Why post irrelevant stuff you twat?


  • #17
    Adam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Adam


    Affable wrote: »
    Why post irrelevant stuff you twat?
    Actually it was a fairly valid point. You twat.


  • #18
    Affable
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,212 ✭✭✭Affable


    Mirror wrote: »
    Actually it was a fairly valid point. You twat.

    Sure, sure. Since when did trolling become 'valid'....


  • #19
    St Bill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 515 ✭✭✭St Bill


    Mirror wrote: »
    Yes.

    Lock nao plz. kthxbai ^_^
    Why are you still posting if you wanted the thread locked?


  • #20
    EamonnKeane
    Closed Accounts Posts: 950 ✭✭✭EamonnKeane


    AngryBadger wrote: »
    What???

    The song, A Man's A Man For A' That.


  • #21
    chump
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,807 ✭✭✭chump


    when is a man not a man?


    23169021.jpg


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  • #22
    kerash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,688 ✭✭✭kerash


    Ikky Poo2 wrote: »
    You only just noticeing this now...? It's been going on for the best part fo a decade!!

    Personally, I think the materlaistic boom has peaked. Partially because of the credit crunch, partially because people are becoming a little more skeptical and a little less ignorant towards the advertising they're bombarded with. We're more spiritual than we were in the past as well (and notice, I did NOT say religious).

    You'd have to be seriously insecure to be materistic nowadays, but tere are some incredibly insecure people out there these days.

    No offence, but if i hear those two words one more time i'm gonna crack:mad:

    As for the op's question, as someone said previously...eleventy1:D:pac::pac:


  • #23
    Dord
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,817 ✭✭✭✭Dord


    chump wrote: »
    when is a man not a man?


    23169021.jpg

    When it's having a baby? :confused:


  • #24
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Affable wrote: »
    Why post irrelevant stuff you twat?
    Mirror wrote: »
    Actually it was a fairly valid point. You twat.
    No personal abuse please. Thanks.


  • #25
    Kold
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,778 ✭✭✭✭Kold


    Affable wrote: »
    Sure, sure. Since when did trolling become 'valid'....

    With all due respect, what the hell is your problem? I posted it because it was funny. If you wanted a serious thread, howabout posting it in the right place. And it not being so flimsy.


  • #26
    JC 2K3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,794 ✭✭✭JC 2K3


    Ikky Poo2 wrote: »
    We're more spiritual than we were in the past as well
    What does that mean?


  • #27
    Affable
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,212 ✭✭✭Affable


    Kold wrote: »
    I posted it because it was funny.

    Wrong, sadly.


  • #28
    DanGerMus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,525 ✭✭✭DanGerMus


    Affable wrote: »
    Wrong, sadly.

    I found it lAffable..... :pac::pac::pac:

    <<<<<gets coat


  • #29
    allabouteve
    Closed Accounts Posts: 844 ✭✭✭allabouteve


    JC 2K3 wrote: »
    What does that mean?

    I think it means that people today have more money than sense, and are more likely to fall for the type of illogical and irrational whatevers fashionable at the moment, new agey, paranormaly, aroma reiki crystal reflex tarot card reading based pseudo religious substitutes around at the moment.


  • #30
    AngryBadger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,251 ✭✭✭AngryBadger


    DanGerMus wrote: »
    I found it lAffable..... :pac::pac::pac:

    <<<<<gets coat

    haha + about a million

    Seriously though, OP what the hell are you talking about?

    I'm not saying you don't have some kind of point, but you're being about as clear as **** on a pane of glass.


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  • #31
    AngryBadger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,251 ✭✭✭AngryBadger


    allabouteve wrote: »
    I think it means that people today have more money than sense, and are more likely to fall for the type of illogical and irrational whatevers fashionable at the moment, new agey, paranormaly, aroma reiki crystal reflex tarot card reading based pseudo religious substitutes around at the moment.

    See now THAT's a clear post of what you're talking about.

    And I happen to agree with it 100 %


  • #32
    kreuzberger
    Registered Users Posts: 324 ✭✭kreuzberger


    for years all ive heard people talk about is property , property , property - soulless boring materialistic twats - on cocaine - thats what this country i once loved turned into . Came very close to climbing a tall building with a rifle and scope a few times but decided the inevitable recession would be much more fun to sit back and watch .


  • #33
    allabouteve
    Closed Accounts Posts: 844 ✭✭✭allabouteve


    When people have money to spend they make a virtue of their material possessions. When there's no money to spare they make a virtue of being non materialistic......


  • #34
    DublinWriter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,559 ✭✭✭DublinWriter


    kreuzberger wrote: »
    for years all ive heard people talk about is property , property , property - soulless boring materialistic twats - on cocaine - thats what this country i once loved turned into .
    Tell me about it. You really gotta miss all that unemployment and those comely maidens dancing at the crossroads.


  • #35
    CyberGhost
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,554 ✭✭✭CyberGhost


    As long as there have been people there has been materialism, there is just the degrees of it.

    There are people that have, multiple lcd tvs, xboxes, ps3s, mp3 players, ipods and iphones, jewels, expensive watches, cars... and spend like there is no tomorrow.

    Lots of it has to do with the fact that for the last couple of decades the media has been brainwashing people and making consumers out of them.

    I used to be very materialistic AND a collector at heart to make it even worse, I liked to have things, and worse of all things in new mint condition, if something got a scratch I immediately had the feeling of losing something, I wanted to replace that thing with a new one.

    Lately though, I've changed, most of it has to do with the fact that I got exhausted with caring for stuff and cleaning it and maintaining it.... I've sold lots of stuff, I only buy things that I need not things I want, I believe I've become more practical, I have an old nokia 6230i, I don't need an iphone, yea it looks good, but do I really need it? nope... I don't buy a top of the line pc, I settle for something that is enough, I use things, I don't care if something gets a scratch, F it.

    I'm just fed up with stuff stuff stuff, I want to be as "mobile" as possible and have only the necessary things.

    I still do have an obsession with sorting files on a pc though..... I like to have everything in a perfect order and in a high quality(audio/video).


  • #36
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,634 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    allabouteve wrote: »
    I think it means that people today have more money than sense, and are more likely to fall for the type of illogical and irrational whatevers fashionable at the moment, new agey, paranormaly, aroma reiki crystal reflex tarot card reading based pseudo religious substitutes around at the moment.

    Not, really, no. Spirtial and new age are different things. By spiritual, I mean that people are more holistic now then they were ten years ago, and are more likely to take the Buddhist approach towards materialist, and see that the extras won't bring them happiness. Nothing really sixth-sensey about it at all. Of course, as you point out, some do go to the other extreme, but they they still tend to be looking for soemthing more personal than possessions.

    To sum up - spirtual people tent to be more content with the they have and more interested in who they are. Materialistc people are never content with what thay have

    The only "pseudo religious" sustiute around here at the moment is the daily star/TV3 tabloid media bandwagon.
    "Someone turn on something - I'm starting to think, here!"

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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