I live in a little old town, where the houses have eaves. Eaves are old fashioned roof overhangs that give a cosy feeling to the home. The only intrusion of reality is computers.
Otherwise, you could be anywhere in a post colonial world.
What would Shakespeare’s greatest hero, Hamlet have to say about modern life? He could say: “what a world has come to pass, that our laws are so corrupt. We create laws that benefit the few and thus we manufacture and sell plastic without any difficulty. Our convenience is more important than our health. Can it truly be so Horatio? Why have we betrayed the mother?’
I am not sure what Horatio would have said, from what I remember, Horatio had little to say to his vastly more intellectual and verbose friend.
But, candidly, selling non bio degradable materials shouldn’t be possible. A rational government would first ration oil and plastic. The environmental and health issues point to the elephant in the room…and that’s petrochemicals and oil.
The new age environmental movement is up against an extreme use of petroleum by- products. A vast array of consumer products from personal care to household products which incidentally also give rise to endocrine issues, fertility problems and cancers are available abundantly. That sort of abundance is actually like a cancerous tumour. It isn’t real. In fact it creates ill health–both mentally and physically, for very short term pleasures. It is not true wealth.
So why do we want it? why do consumers want it? it is just an addiction, a habit that has been well ingrained because of the constant barrage of advertising and easy lending?.
Why is money being thrown at people, when clearly being resource efficient is the wiser choice?
Before people actually have money they’ve spent it. Any suburban family will tell you about the pressure to make more money to buy more stuff. Because that’s the definition of happiness in a capitalist consumer society. If we use a more holistic economic model to understand the flow of goods and services, it becomes clear that individual streams of income should not be called income in truth, because that money has no way of actually staying with people. The way the banking system is set up, the money has to rapidly flow from individuals through the economy, thus allowing banks to double or even treble their lending portfolio (their assets).
The banks are set up to make money from all human activities. Nobody has any real money in this system. That’s why there should be minimal to 0 resistance to a resource based green economy, where land protection is part of the constitution. For many societies around the world it is normal to recognize a higher power or bigger picture as a purpose of life and that concept was part of every day life, laws and values.
Please stop making it so easy to destroy the planet. You can contribute so much, by saying no to plastics, no to consumerism, no to irresponsible consumption and yes to gifting, sharing and otherwise helping those who are bringing the new consciousness on to the planet.
Voluntary poverty or discrimination in the use of money will lead to:
1. Greater efficiency in the use of resources.
2. More opportunity to take care of health.
Behind The Veil 