step 114: rid yourself of your “perceived obsolescence.” it’s a lie. try on sustainability for a change. your happiness is dropping because you are constantly being told that ya suck and consumption is the only cure. it’s not. also, the earth has a right over you. stop buying things and then trashing them after six months. try incorporating sustainability, zero waste, closed loop production, renewable energy, and local living economies into your life. this is what was proposed for us after world war two:
Our enormously productive economy… demands that we make consumption our way of life, that we convert the buying and use of goods into rituals, that we seek our spiritual satisfaction, our ego satisfaction, in consumption… We need things consumed, burned up, worn out, replaced, and discarded at an ever increasing rate. - Victor Lebow, 1955
it’s disgusting that we fell into this. let’s take back our government.
