v.002

Man was never one with the Earth, rather, man stood in spite of it, for all creatures stand in spite of the world. And, it is in our standing, in spite of the odds, against (and with) the other wights of our realm that creates the balance. However, man has reached an unsustainable pseudo-equilibrium, that is, our failure is far enough over the horizon that it is hid as a balance, but nay, our consumer driven existence shall not be borne for ever. The markets shall not bear it, for what is the market but nature through the hands and will of man.

America’s hubris was not living within some of our belief, that we could spread democracy to the world, but rather, that we could consume all, we gluttons, and that the world was our cornucopia. Well it isn’t so, we cannot not work have our ipod too, we cannot sunder our forests and swamps, and expect the nature not sunder us. This not a pro-environmental rant but rather a plea that we must be conservative in all things, including how we consume.

Further, as our cultural values have changed, as the worth of our family has wanned and we prioritized our purchasing power over our children, as we have leveraged debt, instead of our debt to our kin, we have found our lives empty. What we need is a lap-band for our spending habits.

While it is understood that our unsustainable easy-credit lifestyles are coming to end, what is not seen is the that culture that tolerated must also yield. And, when we can no longer put off the pain, we shall then embrace acceptance and that acceptance is our shall be our post-consumerism attitudes.

Yet, one cannot say the future, but one can hope a return to what worked in the past, a family as a central unit of society and a society the suffers change slowly.

Tags: consumerism, post-consumerism

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