May 0808

While shopping the other day, I realized that I was spending more on food for two of us, then I had for three in the seventies & eighties. I pay more for everything, as do you, I suspect. What do I get in return? Less product, less respect, less safety, less assurance that my children will be able to eat or breathe. All the while we have major problems, we’re being diverted by the campaign from hell. We’re being diverted from the fact that we are junkies in a world that is quickly running out of our drug of choice…which isn’t our choice at all.

We know that our consumerism is eating our childrens futures, but we continue to buy the absolute crap that is presented to us. Is anyone stupid enough to buy cleaning products that are unsafe to touch or breath yet are safe for our ovens. Does anyone really buy those little aroma/night light/electrical air fresheners? How about those incrediably ugly dolls from China. Those things can give a kid nightmares.

Why aren’t we set up to re-use our bottles? I’d have no problem bringing my soda bottle to the market and re-filling it from a fountain/spigot set up. I don’t drink soda because of the bottles.

Why are we not planting more gardens and trees? Here in East Providence,RI,  you’d have no idea that we are broke and teetering on the edge of climate catastrophe. There are still fancy sidewalks being put in, we still burn the public building lights long after everyone has left, we have stadium lights that can be seen from across the bay. Does anyone beleive any of that is necessary?

We are we still struggling to get good public transportation? Frankly, I get the idea that the powers that be want to divide us, isolate us…much the way an abuser does.

We aren’t the People getting more angry? More involved? We don’t we look at the facts. We are allowing those that are suppossed to ‘protect’ us to sell us out….just like a junkie would sell out his mother.

We are selling out our future & the future of this planet when we buy out of season food stuffs that have been shipped thousands of miles. I don’t need a can of tasteless mushrooms from China. I don’t need melons from South America.  Is that $3.99 melon realy worth what it took to get it here?

Wake up.

Get angry.

Shop locally or on the net.