These days, everything is considered replaceable. We have plastic cutlery, disposable razors, fast food, biodegradable chip bags and milk bottles, and $.50 lighters that we toss when they run out. New cars have a shelf life of 5 years, electronics are only considered worth using until the next one comes out, and fashion fads are...well, fads.
Is it any wonder, then, that America's infrastructure is going down the tubes?
Think about that for a moment. Instead of being willing to buy something that is sturdy and will last, we have immersed ourselves in this culture of disposability.We have given value to cheap, fast, and new, while discarding the concepts of reliability, permanence, and generational sustainability. We have allowed consumer culture to infiltrate and destroy us from the inside, brainwashing us and making us into slaves of whim and corporate influence.
Even now, we destroy things that can be used once again without even being reprocessed. Why do you toss your glass bottles and containers only to buy plastic jugs and containers later on? Is washing something that does not stain, keeps food and drinks fresher, and will not erode over time that difficult? Why must you buy bottled water when there are easily accessible and inexpensive filtration systems for your existing water lines? Why toss out that computer two years after you got it? Are you so inept at system maintenance that you can't keep the thing clean? Why do you need that new car, that new phone, or that new sound system?
Getting new things on the basis of them being new is not a justification for a way of life.
Young Western World, you have been brainwashed into creating more waste than necessary. You have been force-fed the lie of needing new everything, of discarding perfectly good things in order to buy new ones. You have let the bourgeoisie fool you into thinking the hole in your spirit should be filled with things, robbing you of your money, which is an integral part of your power, and leaving you ever in want of more. Instead of learning to be at peace with yourselves, you have been taught to consume, waste, and destroy, affecting everything in your life from relationships and finances to the environment and the world economy.
Disengage. Turn off the "consume" button, if only for a little while.
Find me. @xXxAnarchosxXx
Is it any wonder, then, that America's infrastructure is going down the tubes?
Think about that for a moment. Instead of being willing to buy something that is sturdy and will last, we have immersed ourselves in this culture of disposability.We have given value to cheap, fast, and new, while discarding the concepts of reliability, permanence, and generational sustainability. We have allowed consumer culture to infiltrate and destroy us from the inside, brainwashing us and making us into slaves of whim and corporate influence.
Even now, we destroy things that can be used once again without even being reprocessed. Why do you toss your glass bottles and containers only to buy plastic jugs and containers later on? Is washing something that does not stain, keeps food and drinks fresher, and will not erode over time that difficult? Why must you buy bottled water when there are easily accessible and inexpensive filtration systems for your existing water lines? Why toss out that computer two years after you got it? Are you so inept at system maintenance that you can't keep the thing clean? Why do you need that new car, that new phone, or that new sound system?
Getting new things on the basis of them being new is not a justification for a way of life.
Young Western World, you have been brainwashed into creating more waste than necessary. You have been force-fed the lie of needing new everything, of discarding perfectly good things in order to buy new ones. You have let the bourgeoisie fool you into thinking the hole in your spirit should be filled with things, robbing you of your money, which is an integral part of your power, and leaving you ever in want of more. Instead of learning to be at peace with yourselves, you have been taught to consume, waste, and destroy, affecting everything in your life from relationships and finances to the environment and the world economy.
Disengage. Turn off the "consume" button, if only for a little while.
Find me. @xXxAnarchosxXx
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