Stuff

I've said it before, and I'll say it again... We're consumers. And the fact that we, as Americans, are described as that as oppose to other things is terrifying to me. Do we really "need" everything, I guess so, because that's what we're told.

I just watched a movie called "The Story of Stuff" and in all honesty, some of the concepts we're pretty intense.  The idea is:

1. we wake up and go to work
2. we are so tired when we get home that we plop down, watch television, only to be told that we suck and we need stuff to make us awesome
3. so we get up and go shopping in order to buy all the stuff that will make us happy

1. then go back to work in order to pay for all the stuff we just bought
2. so then we are so tired when we get home that we plop down, watch television, only to be told that we suck and we need stuff to make us awesome
3.  so we get up and go shopping in order to buy all the stuff that will make us happy

1. then go back to work in order to pay for all the stuff we just bought
2. so then we are so tired when we get home that we plop down, watch television, only to be told that we suck and we need stuff to make us awesome
3. so we get up and go shopping in order to buy all the stuff that will make us happy...

Wow.

This also reminds me of a video I watched promoting a conference I'm attending about how the world is just telling us though the media how worthless we are. And in that way, the media trains those around is to look at us as worthless if we choose not to conform. Think about it.