Friday, June 3, 2011

the story of stuff

4 comments:

Mr. Pony said...

Thanks, Heeero. I've been meaning to watch this for months. I appreciate hearing these surprises about our system that are clearly true, but glossed over in service of the system itself. This does seem to be, however, a gross oversimplification of a gross oversimplification; that is, as much as the original consumption diagram is simplified to the point of seeming innocuous, her solutions to the problem are simplified to the point of being kind of useless. The last two minutes are so full of vague "why don't we justs" and buzz-phrases, that I wonder what the point of this video is, ultimately. THERE ARE NO ACTION ITEMS HERE, Heeero!

Not that there aren't valuable lessons here. But what happens to the poor, exploited, third-world laborers who's very lives rely on our high level of consumption, when we reduce our level of consumption in order to liberate them? If we stop industrial farming, what happens to the children made possible by industrial farming? And so on.

I'm very interested to hear what we all think about this. Helpwillcome, I know you have an opinion, here. Odori, if there was a time for you to return and weigh in, this is it. The rest of you, I know you have something to say too. Who's first?

Galspanic said...

I got so frustrated by the "this is happening and we aren't doing anything about it"-ness of it I kind of had to stop, and meant to restart, but like so many other of my unfinished projects, I never got back to it. That reminds me... email to write. Blog to start. Dammit!

Heeero said...

Yeah. It would be nice if there were specifics involved, but...alas.

Heeero said...

I found it interesting tho, nonetheless.