tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7436838512938962987.post2076632814764485719..comments2023-11-05T07:01:56.478-05:00Comments on Good Green Witch: Waste Not, Want NotRhonnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12519541867341575332noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7436838512938962987.post-89891082182463535972012-05-07T16:22:58.714-04:002012-05-07T16:22:58.714-04:00Ha! I was just watching a hoarding show on Netflix...Ha! I was just watching a hoarding show on Netflix last night. It leaves me with such mixed feelings. <br /><br />On the one hand it's totally clear that these people are trying to fill an emotional hole with physical things... which is really just the societal norm taken to extremes.<br /><br />On the other hand, I think these people are sort of reacting to the craziness or our disposable culture. They keep saying things like "but this could be used somehow by someone" and they're totally right. <br /><br />I think it's hard to find a way to be sane in a world that's gone mad.EcoCatLadyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15704811319510740473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7436838512938962987.post-6753915736618050282012-05-07T11:07:35.892-04:002012-05-07T11:07:35.892-04:00My personal belief is that people accumulate "...My personal belief is that people accumulate "stuff" instead of taking the time to sit down, think about why they're buying one more piece of useless crap - what hole they're trying to feel.<br /><br />We are a nation (or a world?) of people who are so distanced from our inner voice that the art of listening to it is almost unheard of.<br /><br />People don't know themselves or their own motivations so often that it's actually considered a bad thing when you want to talk about how you feel, and instead society wants to hand you some brain-altering drug or a new toy.<br /><br />Mass production means we have access to more stuff, and slave labor in poorer countries means we can have it pretty darned cheap. So buying "stuff" is easier, we don't have to think about it really. Did you go on a bender and break every glass in the cupboard? No big deal, head to WalMart and for $20 you can replace every drinking glass you had. Too fat to fit into your clothes? No problem, head to WalMart and buy new, bigger clothes made of some plastic thread by some underpaid wage slave in a country whose name you can't pronounce and then stop for an ice cream cone on the way home.<br /><br />I'm sorry, I shouldn't have ranted. I'm just glad the voices in my head tell me *not* to kill people.Alan Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07764107413720618997noreply@blogger.com