Unnecessary need

We see an increasing need for innovation in products and ideas, shaping human thinking and behavior...

According to the politician Gandhi...

“There is enough in the world for all human needs, not enough for human greed”.

In this sense, we realize that human beings strive more to obtain something desired than their needs. In many cases he sacrifices future resources for his survival in order to nourish his desire in the present.

Regarding this sentence, we note that – over time – human beings have sought to acquire new objects for their consumption, and may be influenced by culture, society, media and/or means of telecommunications, which exert a strong influence on the subject.

Advertising and the various marketing strategies produce beliefs to the point where we believe that a certain publicized object is indispensable for our lives. Every year, there is an increase in demand for technological products, such as cell phones that have extraordinary functions, waterproof shirt, glasses that generate vision in the dark, TVs with impressive dimensions, miraculous cosmetics that guarantee vitamin recovery, teeth whitening, among others.

To complicate the scenario, with each passing day, we see an increasing need for innovation in products and ideas, shaping – at all times – human thinking and behavior.

The level of demand is absurd. We need to be stronger, more intelligent, more beautiful, more tidy, among other infinities of charges, towards nowhere; and why not, in chaos?

This is where the lack of philosophical thinking arises.

It is necessary to think beyond the stipulated truths. Reflect, meditate, criticize, speak, comment, argue and discuss... This is the only way we can get rid of the oppressive ties that imprison us every day, living what we ourselves have built, preserving the mind, society and financial health.

Jorge Gomes.

Pedagogue.