BF199 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Big Business, Latte
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Big business wants to brand us and wants us to think of their stuff as being meaningful to us. Canadian journalist more feet on the ground. Jobs that are being treated by the companies we buy products from they treat people over seas the way that we would not tolerate being treated here. Companies keep doing it because we do not know that it is going on. She is not just talking about it but she has seen it. The corporate power that the business people do, but it is living in our lives - conditioning how see the world/ourselves and whether or not we have life satisfaction. Cormorant over reached into your personality and seeps in. We have the tendency to forget the questions of freedom of thought and liberty we are distracted. When constantly distracted because of these sorts of things it has a huge impact. Companies aren"t selling us stuff, but meaning a lifestyle perspective on meaning.