Quote Originally Posted by gerbick
I think you'd be hard pressed to disagree that we've indeed become a land of consumers. Which is pretty damn sad in itself.
i'm not going to disagree with you here. But the issue i have is... how has our mindset changed over the past 500 years? We didn't just magically become consumers, our entire existence has hinged on the buy, sell, barter, trade mentality. The only thing that has changed is the amount of monetary value we put on these things and how fast we get them.

We shouldn't be asking why we do what we do, and there sure is hell no way we're going to change our buying habits. The only way that can happen is if for some reason we tip the scales. And the only way that's going to happen is if the system we're living in fails on it's own. It's not going to reset the counter to zero...if you make the drug disappear, the drug addict will have no other choice to find another drug. And hopefully that drug is 100% natural goods which becomes 100% recyclable.