Debris aka Garbage

Something is out of whack in the way we live. It's been out of whack a long time. I don't know just when it started, but maybe it started with the industrial revolution. Maybe it started when guilds became corporations.

All I know is: there is the 1 % and the 99 % and I don't know how things are going to get straightened out.

It seems to me that part of the problem is what people call 'consumerism', meaning the 1% produces things and the 99% buys things. It has gotten so bad that the country’s economic system requires more and more people buy things so the 1% can continue to produce things.

In order to do this, the 1% has gone global to find markets in which to sell things. That's fine, but the problem is, the the jobs went global as well. The 99% lost the jobs which earned the money with which to buy the things and now, they can't even afford to pay for shelter, food, medicine or education. The 99% want their jobs so they can earn money to pay for necessities and buy more things.

We are inundated with things. It seems as if our motto is: if one is good, 50 is better. Used clothing given to Good Will is shipped overseas rather than clog our own land fills. Planned obsolescence is the policy of many manufactures, including those of autos and refrigerators. New versions of iPads and televisions are praised as clever inventions and we rush to update from the old.

We even have debris falling out of the sky. Now we are waiting for the debris-berg from the tsunami in Japan to reach our shores. I have no idea what the impact of that will be.

It seems as if things are getting whackier by the day. Maybe the 99% will find the answer to so much wackiness. Lets hope!

"You can't make Nothing into Something and you can't make Something into Nothing. All you can do is transform One Something into Another Something."

KimB