Everything in the world today seems disposable.Goods, people,relationships, ideals..everything.Do you see this sign of people alienating themselves from society and each other as having unforseen complications?What do you think the result of this will be?
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What goes around, comes around. : - )
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I see it as part of the colossal death of perspective that modern life seems based on. Loss of community. Loss of identity and loss of perspective those things afford us. We don't understand what's important or our role in the safety and continued habitability of this planet. Here's a link to some artworks that explore that concept. A photographer has made some collages of just the waste we generate in the space of minutes. Imagine what two million plastic bottle looks like. 2 million of the things are used and thrown away in the USA every 5 minutes. They will sit around the planet for hundreds, perhaps thousands of years yet we all have running water into every home in the USA. Just nuts. http://www.geekologie.com/2008/04/running_the_numbers_art_exhibi.php
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If you read Albert Camus's The Stranger (L!etrangé or so) you can see that this not a problem to be carried into individually arguments. It's universal and systematically massive and mess! Prof. Mes
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The consumer society is a scary thing. Taking from, and not giving back to the planet has enormous consequences. Watch "An Inconvenient Truth" - that really hits the nail on the head as to where we're going. I keep up a positive approach (it's the only way to survive!). The pendulum is swinging and we're just about to hit an extreme - it'll get worse before it gets better - then it will swing the other way (circa 2012). The western world will have to pull its pants up very soon...
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Back to the total loss of compassion I spoke of earlier; if it continues, we'll have a generation of delusional, self centered, every man for himself type of people. A total regression; society will fall apart and cease to exist as we know it. Maybe it won't go that far before some social awakening takes place; the fact that some of us are concerned means there is still some hope.
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Yes, it is a cause for concern. I am not so worried about the disposable products, except when they pollute the earth, which some do. I am more concerned about the "disposable relationships". "We'll sing in the sunshine,..we'll laugh every day..we'll sing in the sunshine,..then I'll be on my way"....Cute song, but too much the norm, today. Too many children are growing up very confused because of this "philosophy". If people are going to play this game, they should have the common human sense of decency not to bring children into the world. They have no business being parents. And usually, it is someone else who winds up "parenting", anyway. Grandma and Grandpa,..at an age when they probably had other plans. Irresponsibility reigns today. We live in the "spoiled brat" age, now. And Grandma and Grandpa are often as guilty as any. Many of them were spoiled brats themselves. What goes 'round, comes 'round.
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Great question and observation, Dbd! I think that our "toys" will ultimately destroy us..to the extent that they become our "must-haves", it is to that extent that we will no longer be "human". Each newest toy attracts millions of people who are willing to stand in line for hours just so they can be among the first to have the thingy..that is their only contact with humans..standing in line..they get the toy, they "hook in, up or whatever" and they simultaneously remove themselves from real-world contact with people and go into cyber world...the more of the toys we have, the less time we spend in human face-to-face communication. :(
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This has been going on since the 70s, I believe. Back in college in the early 80s, we called it the atomization of society: people were seen as becoming alienated from each other and the world in general. IMHO, one of the immediate side effects is the epidemic of obesity, at least in the US. I also attribute the lack of civil discourse about national problems as another effect. Our culture in the States seems to have become one of I'm right and you're wrong leaving little room to even discuss our opinions.
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