ABOUT KAMRAN’s Blog and GUEST BLOG
I- KAMRAN’s Blog: Dedicated to the Common Good- aiming to be a source of hope and inspiration; enabling us all to move from despair to hope; darkness to light and competition to cooperation. “Let the beauty we love be what we do.”-Rumi
II- KAMRAN MOFID’s GUEST’s BLOG: Here on The Guest Blog you’ll find commentary, analysis, insight and at times provocation from some of the world’s influential and spiritual thought leaders as they weigh in on critical questions about the state of the world, the emerging societal issues, the dominant socio-economic logic, globalisation, money, markets, sustainability, dialogue, cooperation, environment, media, spirituality, faith, culture, the youth, the purpose of business and economic life, the crucial role of leadership, and the challenges facing economic, business, management, education, and more.
“When we are dreaming alone it is only a dream. When we are dreaming together it is the beginning of reality.”—Helder Camara
Angel Oak Tree, Charleston, South Carolina, USA
Photo: pinterest.com
- Details
- Written by: Kamran Mofid
- Hits: 12294
The Madness of Materialism and Consumerism: A Very Black Friday Indeed
Shoppers get into the madness of Black Friday Sales. Photo: Twitter
The Big Question surly must be:
As we are only here for a short while, with so little time to do all we should do, why then this madness to posses more and more?
Have you not heard about Memento mori and Memento vivere?
‘There is no time like the present to look at life from its widest perspective’
“It occurred to me that there were two sets of virtues, the résumé virtues and the eulogy virtues. The résumé virtues are the skills you bring to the marketplace. The eulogy virtues are the ones that are talked about at your funeral — whether you were kind, brave, honest or faithful. Were you capable of deep love?"
Although it's still over a week or so away, Black Friday is already in the front of many shoppers' minds. Sale promotions are enticing the masses to rise and oil the wheels of money-driven capitalism: Buying things that they do not need, with the money that they do not have, to impress the friends that they do not have time for. Thanksgiving vs. Black Friday: Where is the Gratitude?
Many retailers are aware of this, and have already begun to release the specifics of the deals they will offer on the day after Thanksgiving. Other stores have had their promotional offers "leaked" online beforehand due to the eagerness many shoppers have to find the best deals, and more so, to create a false hype to fool the masses even more! Many cannot wait, for this opportunity of a life time! A madness that repeats itself every November!
- 14 November 1940: The Destruction and Re-birth of Coventry
- A Response from Kamran Mofid to an article on higher education by Prof. AC Grayling, Master, the New College of the Humanities
- Good on you Ms. Essena O'Neill: Social media 'is not real life'
- There is more in less: The Evolution of Simplicity
- World in Chaos and Despair: The Healing Power of Slow Reading
- World in Chaos and Despair: The Healing Power of Gratitude
- Slow Reading Sunday: My Wisdom Corner