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In yet another example of the illusions of society, Instagram ‘influencers’ are renting a fake ‘business jet’ studio to take photos pretending to be traveling by private plane.
An LA-based studio is renting the ‘private jet set’ to photographers starting out at $34.99 per hour, which includes a make-up station, strobe lights and even a mini fridge.
Even more, the outside of the studio is built with real OSB chipboard, just like a real-life McMansion!
And while the studio likely intended the set for advertising shoots, given how critical proper lighting is for photography, ‘influencers’ quickly took advantage of the sweet deal.
This story isn’t that surprising if you’re already starting to notice how fake society has become, which is due in part to people practicing consumerism as a sacrament to materialism.
For example, private jet travel in general is so expensive that it has bankrupted even the very wealthy, so it’s out of reach to the majority of Instagram ‘influencers’ who thus fake their jet travel to keep up with the illusion that they’re all-important, high priests of materialism.
To them, the ends justify the means because the ‘likes’ are still the same – and that’s because many of their followers are still locked inside Plato’s Cave.
But, again, it’s all an illusion.
There’s been philosophers both in the recent and ancient past who argued that pastoralism was the apex of human civilization as it connects each individual with his community and immediate surroundings, which is something that’s been lost in the smartphone era.
Certainly, consumerism and materialism didn’t quite exist under pastoralism.
What did exist, however, was creation and personal development: building your own families, building your own homestead, building your relationships with neighbors and, in summary, building your own fortunes in life.
Contrast that to the herd-mentality passivity of following someone on Instagram. Not leading your own life, but following someone else’s.
But fulfillment comes from successfully building a role for yourself in this world that doesn’t rely on attention or validation from others, especially not Instagram followers.
Ironically, you kind of see people embracing pastoralism in games like Minecraft in which players build little homesteads and towns for themselves.
Although some Minecraft players put videos of their creations on YouTube to impress others, this act of virtual creation is still a manifestation of pastoralism which allows people to feel connected to a world where their actions matter.
And that’s what’s ultimately fulfilling: to have a connection to your community and to have power to shape that community – and ‘community’ doesn’t mean a cookie cutter subdivision where your neighbors come and go every few years.
On the other hand, faking your lifestyle through Instagram isn’t fulfilling because you’re not demonstrating that you have power over anything. You are simply a slave to your own illusion of consumerism, which in itself isn’t fulfilling.
People falsely believe that only those with money have power, but even our own financial system is an illusion.
True power, however, comes from building up your own community and making others feel important about themselves, and not using others to make yourself feel important.
True validation comes from within, knowing that you have the power to start a family, to start a venture, to start a personal project or to start a homestead in which you are the creator of that realm.
Creating an illusion, however, isn’t power because people aren’t meant to value illusions, and that’s why so many of them feel alone and disconnected from society without quite understanding why.
In contrast, going against the grain to build a life on your own terms often leads to fulfillment because society falsely places value on illusions.
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