Things to come...

The future often seems unsettling to me and I can't help but think that our current ways of life contribute almost wholly to that. What has spurred our excessive procreation, our need for mass produced items, and our unwillingness to compromise? Since when did we need bigger, better, more, faster? Our greed for more has led to an inevitable road where many will be lead toward a future of less rather than more. Less jobs, less food, less money, less possessions, less house, less car, less... To think this isn't a product of our own doing is to the point of ridiculous. We are a society that wants more for less, which leads to a number of problems. First off we buy cheaper products, products that don't last as long and end up in the trash, so that we have to buy more and use more resources. Second, we want to pay less, which means we have to pay workers less to produce these cheap items. We Americans don't want less... so we give up our jobs and factories to overseas countries that pay less. And even though we know these cheap products are costing our neighbors their jobs... we buy them... because we want, neigh, need them. Our economy, our health system, our food system, our water system, is all falling apart around us... but we don't care, not yet. We won't care until it affects us personally, and by us I mean the middle class, the majority, the heart and soul of the country that we love so much, but seem to be trying to destroy. And by the time we care... well you can see why the future is unsettling.