Very insightful to tie all these things together at their root, too many people! Almost everyone has the disease of consumption. More, flashier, enviable, we’ve got a closetful. My father grew up in the Depression. He never threw anything away. I do my best to fix everything when it breaks. But nothing is enough. The tide of consumers is inexorable. We were hoodwinked to believe cheap and easy was what we wanted. The greedheads, the banksters, the corporados, the fatcats, the industrialists have kept us slaves forever. The robber barons had us all figured out. I went to prison for defending this, my frontyard view. It dramatised the issue in the public mind and this tiny patch of earth was saved while 90% around it was clearcut. I have to admit I love eight cylinders. But I’ll have to give it up, won’t I.
