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Concerned looking old ladies this week. The world has changed drastically since I have been alive and I often wonder what it would be like to be the generation above who have lived long enough to see everything that they were conditioned to believe was good and aspirational has become mostly evil and destructive. Increased technology, relentless economic growth and the incessant act of consumerism were sold as things that would lead to happiness and fulfilment but actually turned out on a long enough time line to be the causes of almost all the ills in the world. These goals have been pursued to such a degree they have destabilised the spherical organism we live upon and we must now attempt to steer the human race onto a new path.

In all honesty infinite growth in a finite space can’t have ever seemed like a great long term plan but I guess they just didn’t think we would ever fill the space  we live in but we have. Between ourselves, our constructions and the waste they  created there is now not much room left, a seemingly impossible idea back when the women featured this week were young.

I keep returning to WALL-E as the scarily and eerily accurate prediction of what was the vision of a future but has, in fact, now happened…but even with all the signs that are screaming “stop or suffer the consequences”, still it continues. We need to find a new version of living that doesn’t just revolve around buying and selling shit which then fucks up our habitat and our health in the process. We have to find another path, another way of living. And we need to convince those in charge of the same and get them to abandon this utterly broken model. Would that be so terrible? I don’t see current society making many people that happy. As the saying goes ‘modern life is rubbish’ or maybe more appropriately ‘modern life is full of rubbish’. We need to stop adding to the landfill or we will end up on it. We must devolve to evolve to survive…