CAPITALISM STOLE INDONESIA'S VIRGINITY
-When the funny red, green, blue, monopoly-looking papers were glamorized to the point that each persons are to put such things above everything else, even virtues, they become slaves to money. Never it was easy to put one's happiness above the money, for money itself has attained a certain power that grant human beings a short-term happiness. It's a wondrous invention, to put value on a piece of paper that devalues the meaning of life itself, by 'devaluing', I mean that the rights that one human being possessed has a value lesser than that is of money's. And this phenomena is what we call 'capitalism'.
-Let's take this aspect unto a great many things and fun examples to better understand this ideology that is often bypassed by the majority.
A. MALLS. The idea of malls is to keep you inside at all times and meaninglessly spend 6-10 hours a day in the weekends with a friend or a loved one. When you find yourself trapped in an addiction to become one with the mall, therefore you have become one of capitalism's favorite pet, 'mallrat'. Why would you spend that much time in an artificial environment? It's not even productive nor healthy. Take your chances in the outside world with carbon monoxide and second-hand smoking. By the way, for your information, being in an air-conditioned facility constantly without sun and questionable ventilation can kill you as well, SLOWLY...
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