Having had a cough for a good two to three weeks now, I'm starting to wonder if I will ever recover. Of course I know it is just a matter of time, but I begin to imagine what I would be doing at this very moment if I were able to breathe through my nose without making a loud noise.
Then I realize that I wouldn't be doing anything different at all. This string of thinking is kind of depressing, due to the fact that we live on earth which is probably the most beautiful planet in our solar system. A planet which, it just so happens, was home to some of the most interesting people.
Of course in today's metaphorical world everything is twisted beyond nature, making it hard to find the root beauty in most things. Living in such a commercial atmosphere also, as I said in my last post, forces us to think on a different wavelength, so to speak.
With all the wonders of our planet that aren't fully appreciated, why does the commercial society feel the need to further obscure our view? It doesn't stop with nature either. Watch any advertisement and try to guess what the are selling you. Not the literal product, but the essence such as health, or entertainment. Why is it recently we need to pay a Thousand dollars to have fun? Without all the fancy expensive stuff everyone else has, we feel like we want it all, too, but when we get it, it is just useless junk so we don't care anymore.
Really though, how long could this last? It's still pretty new stuff, the commercial world I mean. It can't survive very long, can it? Well it will carry on as long as we give it fuel to do so. So in order to restore the natural beauty of Earth we need to not buy a single commercial object, or idea until it all dies away. Of course most of the planet relies on this fake community to survive, what would we do without it?
So you can see for yourself how deep we've dug our grave. The commercial community will not survive as long as we think. It can't, and I could go into further detail but that would be a very long post. Someday it will fail, maybe not outright, but bad enough we would be lost, but I don't believe we would be thrown into chaos either. The human species is one that always lives on, a very adaptable animal.
So breathe whatever nonsense into this post that you wish, I just hope you understood the basic idea of what I was saying.
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I'm not entirely so entirely sure that the commercial society will be so ephemeral as you think. That very human characteristics that gave rise to it will not allow it to die quickly. However I do believe that we will see an increasing schism between the prevailing commercial society, and a rebellious, hipster (so to say) society. The new hippies. Even in the centers of commercialism and capitalism, like New York City, there are those that are trying to take to sustainable, the real, the genuine lifestyles. From movements like rooftop farming to handmade, small, family owned industries there is an increasing amount of individuals who have boldly and deliberately rejected the commercial, entertainment lifestyle. Continuing to high light New York City, one can see a trend, in certain parts of the city, of the return to, one might say, small villages. It seems now that in parts of Brooklyn especially, every other block has its own organic grocery, its own sustainable café. However despite this trend the majority of suburban America remains entrenched in the commercial society. So I think that while the real country (which to some extent has maintained its sustainability) and the cities will reclaim a non-commercial life style, I think that the suburban areas are where it will stay for, unfortunately, a long while. Hope that made some sense.
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