Watch this video, its long, but fascinating. Did you know that if everyone consumed at US rates, (and affluent people of any continent) we would need 3-5 planets to support us?
And that in our culture, if you dont use of lot of stuff, and dont buy a lot of stuff, you dont have value?
We have insatiable desire for STUFF! Our spiritual satisfaction comes from consumption. Planned obsolescence is built in every item.
We are brainwashed by advertising to want STUFF, so we go shopping, we watch TV, get told we are not cool unless we get more stuff, we work for more stuff, go shopping, endless treadmill, then we throw the stuff away and go and buy more.
Time to call a halt!
Isnt it time to change our values?