with Annie Leonard> <-----click here for the exposé.
* When speaking as "we" in this post, I mean to speak of the average American. Of course everyone varies in terms of their degree of being part of the "we".
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The most prevalent problems in American society are interrelated:
- our economic cycle is linear in all the wrong ways.
- our social line of thinking is cyclical to the point of mindless sickness.
- our political power is in the hands of puppeteers and we are allowing ourselves to be the marionettes. We've attached ourselves to their strings by listening submissively.
Instead of creating a system of reproduction, we have a system of Production - Consumption - Disposal. The product is made, used and disposed of when a new product comes along to be consumed, used and disposed of. The problem is the disposal rarely contributes positively toward reproduction. Sure, we've all learned about our blue bins and bottle & can centers, but it is not anywhere near 100 percent and the flow of production - consumption - disposal surges so rampantly, it mostly just goes in ONE direction.
Instead of thinking linearly - rationally - toward an action worth executing, we think cyclically: Work - Watch - Buy. The mindset used for this cycle is ingrained and unchanging; we must Work more to Purchase more, and the ads in between propagate these inclinations by telling us we are not important unless we have more STUFF. We are being duped.
We need to switch: shift gears out of our cyclical ways of thinking and create more of a circular flow for our environment.
And it's not necessarily about EXTREME measures. No one expects EVERYONE in America to NEVER drive their cars to get to work faster, to STOP watching TV for entertainment, or to completely abandon shopping malls or those neat-o devices like I-pods and Wii games. What is expected is an UNDERSTANDING: we must begin to see the level of hypnosis we are under; we need to become conscious of consumer habits and the effects.
It's not just hip to be sustainable. It's not even necessarily hippie; if you consider people who hope for the best for our future to be hippies, than hippie I am.
It can be BETTER.
I consider myself more of a hope-y . . . or a hippo: a human being with hope, not despair. One definition for "hip" is: to be understanding, aware. - - - So, I'm a hopey hippo, not a hippie.
Let's get back to what Christmas is really all about: love, sharing, family, faith and happiness.
Merry Holidays! and let's keep this Christmas less red, more green!
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