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A critique in consumerism and mass society

Natural Socialists do not believe that a mass society can be free. We believe industry and
agriculture inevitably lead to hierarchy and alienation. I argue that the division of labor
techno-industrial societies require to function forces people into reliance on factories and
the labor of other specialists to produce their food, clothing, shelter, and other necessities
and that this dependence forces them to remain a part of this society, whether they like it
or not.^

In a mass society, power resides in large bureaucracies, leaving people in local communities
with little control over their lives. For example, state officials mandate that local schools
must meet educational standards, local products must be government-certified, and every
citizen must maintain extensive tax records. Although such regulations may protect and
enhance social equality, they also force us to deal more and more with nameless officials in
distant and often unresponsive bureaucracies, and they undermine the autonomy of
families and local communities.

We must free ourselves from such concepts and regain our freedom, such a society only
serves to oppress the individual, the masses become atomized members, turning
unattached, unstructured and undifferentiated, distinguishing themselves from the elites via
alienation and mediocrity.

The rulers only care is themselves and therefore they force us, the people, to engage in
consumerism as both a way to line their pockets with riches and a way to subjugate the will
of man, by distracting us with the next new shiny toy they gave us to play with until we bore
ourselves with and then they present another one, this cycle is purely as a way to oppress
the common man and this is the reason capitalism is the tool used to create our societal
problems, with the true root being the entrenched elites.