<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # Being a creator puts people back in touch with... > {{Being a creator puts people back in touch with their power and purpose, causing them to no longer seek their identity and purpose externally through materialism.}} {{As long as people are products, they will be obsessed with products.}} {{When people become empowered creators, or producers, they begin to think about the internal gifts they have to share with others.}} {{Creative producers understand value as something internal to give, whereas human products and consumers understand value as something external to get.}} Human products want products. Free human creators want sharing, people and community. {{Consumer life and present-day corporatism is a form of passive violence because it denatures people and turns them into disposable produce.}} {{We reclaim our power, communities and families by becoming creative producers.}} To end materialism, you don't merely reject materialism, you {{reject the contract of existing as a corporate slave and as a disposable human product.}} {{Materialism is an identity crisis.}} {{When we do not know our true identity as powerful creators, we are susceptible to being used and manipulated.}} {{We believe we are the consumers, but we are the consumed.}} At the highest levels is set the standard example for how we should treat our neighbors and friends. The international financial organisms treat humanity as a flock, repeatedly growing and shearing economic wealth in an age-old process of cycles of chaos and order. Through a type of social natural selection, these intelligent processes have become stronger and more evolved systems of predation. **Source:** [[books/Voice of Reason Book (2009-2012)|Voice of Reason]] <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->