Addicts

I started my own blog because I am angry at how bad the world is becoming and what sort of world that my generation will inherit.

I am an atheist. I won’t debate the ins and out of atheism, I will do this some other time, probably after the next terror attack or when George W Bush lets loose his Christian Crusade army on some poor unsuspecting Ex-friend of the United States.

Being an Atheist you might be prone to thinking that I lack faith and have no concept of religion whatsoever. You would be incredibly wrong, I have learnt about the customs and beliefs of most religions on the planet, in order to conclude to abstain from religion. In some cases I have known more about a person’s religion than someone who actively practices that faith.

As “faith” goes I have plenty of “faith”, as I believe that one day a sadder and wiser hominid will emerge from the rubble of our civilisation and it will have the experience not to let this happen again.

Ever since Thomas Edison invented the light bulb. The world has had the so called luxury or a twenty-four hour society, where its occupants can travel where ever they like, do the things they want, and have modern living made easier by gadgets and gizmos.

We have all became addicts of consumerism, myself included. Everyone has had this society sold to him or her for a tidy profit, and we have had no choice about it. Ever since we were born we have been told what products companies make and why we need to spend money on it. A form of taxation if you want to go that far.

I don’t believe that consumers are deceived, by these faceless corporate entities that have the same basic rights as a human except with the added bonus of being immortal, and infallible. I do believe however that, they are seducing us, the way that a magician uses slight of hand in an illusion. So I believe that it is our fault we let them seduce us.

We all have free will, we all have the choice to buy or not to buy, and we need to decide whether we need weetabix with raisins or if we can buy them separately. What ever happened to just the butcher, baker and candlestick maker?

If one day it gets to the stage where we HAVE to buy bottled water from a supermarket,
Someone please do the honest and right thing and ask “Why what’s wrong with the river?”

I can tell you what happened to the river, our river. Its full of our effluent and detritus that we have expelled as easily as it came into our lives, I doubt Mac Donald’s actually litters my home town with empty boxes and cartons, but I know the consumers of such products do.

It’s a fact Climate change is happening, whether by our hand, or by Gaia just waking up. It should not be up to the governments of the worlds to instigate change; it should be up to you, them, and me. as we have caused the problems, by our greed and ignorance. A government cannot possibly legislate all of us now. We are too numerous, too unpredictable and fickle all at the same time.

My parent’s generation is only just noticing the mistakes it has made by seeing the rise in heart disease and obesity. This is because parents of today are greedy and they don’t look after their children because they want to go back to work, to get money and have nice things.

Instead children have relied on television as a babysitter and their sole educators. They are fed convenience food, as “mother” has forgotten how to cook or is too busy with her laptop to notice that her child weighs the same as her and it is only ten. It has also been said that children of today will be the first generation that will die before their parents. Being a cornucopian as well as an atheist, I would just put this down to experience.

Two days ago a self confessed brand addict burnt all his branded goods for the media to see, it didn’t work, looters swept in to the scene and took what ever was left that looked of any worth.

This tidily brings me back to my faith. As I know this blog will fall upon deaf ears.
But it doesn’t matter because we are all under the illusion that we need food to live, and so therefore we need money to buy it, so we work for the money, but we buy the cheapest food as then we can buy more. A cycle of greed you see.

And one day when that hominid emerges, it will look at the rocks that we once walked on, just as geologists do today and it would wonder and theorise about the end of the Holocene.