Comments on: the new and improved enlightenment lifestyle http://social-creature.com/the-new-and-improved-enlightenment-lifestyle culture, consumer insight, & marketing strategy Thu, 16 Jun 2011 08:57:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Jewel http://social-creature.com/the-new-and-improved-enlightenment-lifestyle/comment-page-1#comment-839 Jewel Tue, 25 Sep 2007 05:41:55 +0000 http://social-creature.com/the-new-and-improved-enlightenment-lifestyle#comment-839 Why decline them? The Om logo on the VISA card doesn't bother me at all, lots of hippies have plain old VISAs (and the hologram onit doesn't stand for the universe!) The only thing that's really missing in the Om ad is the substance: what distinguishes their card services, besides the logo? It would have been helpful to let them know, and improve their product, if it mattered. Working Assets and other green orgs offer activist credit cards; I see no problem with that. And, it's their activist donations that distinguish their product. The so-called enlightened sub-culture is awfully self-congratulatory and insulated sometimes, taking themselves so seriously, and coming from some pretty thin premises to boot. Sure, we throw some great parties, I love those, they're great. But how many of us donate to the ACLU, or write letters for Amnesty International, or volunteer at all? When I see more new agers acting more selflessly, I'll take them more seriously, whether VISA card, cash, or barter-for-services. ;) Why decline them? The Om logo on the VISA card doesn’t bother me at all, lots of hippies have plain old VISAs (and the hologram onit doesn’t stand for the universe!) The only thing that’s really missing in the Om ad is the substance: what distinguishes their card services, besides the logo? It would have been helpful to let them know, and improve their product, if it mattered.

Working Assets and other green orgs offer activist credit cards; I see no problem with that. And, it’s their activist donations that distinguish their product.

The so-called enlightened sub-culture is awfully self-congratulatory and insulated sometimes, taking themselves so seriously, and coming from some pretty thin premises to boot. Sure, we throw some great parties, I love those, they’re great. But how many of us donate to the ACLU, or write letters for Amnesty International, or volunteer at all?

When I see more new agers acting more selflessly, I’ll take them more seriously, whether VISA card, cash, or barter-for-services. ;)

]]> By: jenks http://social-creature.com/the-new-and-improved-enlightenment-lifestyle/comment-page-1#comment-138 jenks Thu, 16 Aug 2007 01:06:41 +0000 http://social-creature.com/the-new-and-improved-enlightenment-lifestyle#comment-138 @ allison. thank you! @ allison. thank you!

]]> By: Allison http://social-creature.com/the-new-and-improved-enlightenment-lifestyle/comment-page-1#comment-137 Allison Wed, 15 Aug 2007 23:55:11 +0000 http://social-creature.com/the-new-and-improved-enlightenment-lifestyle#comment-137 That is hilarious. Love the Barbie one, too. Speaking of which, I hear Paris Hilton has been "reading" books about spirituality. BTW, I love this blog. That is hilarious. Love the Barbie one, too. Speaking of which, I hear Paris Hilton has been “reading” books about spirituality.

BTW, I love this blog.

]]> By: Arin http://social-creature.com/the-new-and-improved-enlightenment-lifestyle/comment-page-1#comment-132 Arin Wed, 15 Aug 2007 04:43:47 +0000 http://social-creature.com/the-new-and-improved-enlightenment-lifestyle#comment-132 i think i know that girl in the photo...oh wait, she just looks like everyone i know. i think i know that girl in the photo…oh wait,
she just looks like everyone i know.

]]> By: jenks http://social-creature.com/the-new-and-improved-enlightenment-lifestyle/comment-page-1#comment-131 jenks Wed, 15 Aug 2007 03:49:55 +0000 http://social-creature.com/the-new-and-improved-enlightenment-lifestyle#comment-131 ok, that totally cracked me up! whole life times and the enlightenment card are actually the same company. like, the holistic-man's newscorp. ok, that totally cracked me up!

whole life times and the enlightenment card are actually the same company. like, the holistic-man’s newscorp.

]]> By: the daniel http://social-creature.com/the-new-and-improved-enlightenment-lifestyle/comment-page-1#comment-130 the daniel Wed, 15 Aug 2007 03:38:01 +0000 http://social-creature.com/the-new-and-improved-enlightenment-lifestyle#comment-130 There's a publication on display in the café in my office building called "Whole Life Times", in which I first saw that Visa advertisement. Just about every other page is a similarly entertaining ad - my favorite being a full-page spread of a suitably noneuropean-looking man in beads and hemp strolling barefoot down a beach hawking 'holistic dentistry'. There’s a publication on display in the café in my office building called “Whole Life Times”, in which I first saw that Visa advertisement. Just about every other page is a similarly entertaining ad – my favorite being a full-page spread of a suitably noneuropean-looking man in beads and hemp strolling barefoot down a beach hawking ‘holistic dentistry’.

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