When I started down the path of simplifying my life, I decided to do some research on the internet to see if I could find some help. One of the things I came across pretty quickly were web sites dedicated to simplicity. What was disappointing about many of them was that they wanted me to buy products to simplify my life.
Yeah, that's right. Got a problem with stuff in your life? Here's some more stuff to help you out!
There's a pretty big industry for simplicity products. That fact is quite telling about the nature of the society I live in. And it's quite disturbing...
Even beyond the simplicity industry, many products offer to simplify your life. It's a common advertising ploy, but usually an absurd one. Like a credit card or a vacation would solve the fact that you are in debt and don't have enough time to keep your home in order.
There's another issue with products, at least one that I'm deeply concerned with. Things that are produced for the mass market seem to conflict with the dreams that I mentione before. They are made with plastics, or in sweat shops, or have to be transported a long, long way.
Despite the message of advertising to the contrary, they're not produced to do me a favor. The purpose is to get some other guy rich. He's not likely trying to help me and help himself at the same time, but trying to help himself, no matter what it might cost me.
Yeah, that's right. Got a problem with stuff in your life? Here's some more stuff to help you out!
There's a pretty big industry for simplicity products. That fact is quite telling about the nature of the society I live in. And it's quite disturbing...
Even beyond the simplicity industry, many products offer to simplify your life. It's a common advertising ploy, but usually an absurd one. Like a credit card or a vacation would solve the fact that you are in debt and don't have enough time to keep your home in order.
There's another issue with products, at least one that I'm deeply concerned with. Things that are produced for the mass market seem to conflict with the dreams that I mentione before. They are made with plastics, or in sweat shops, or have to be transported a long, long way.
Despite the message of advertising to the contrary, they're not produced to do me a favor. The purpose is to get some other guy rich. He's not likely trying to help me and help himself at the same time, but trying to help himself, no matter what it might cost me.
So, watch out for products. You probably don't need the one that you're looking at right now...
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