I am finding it increasingly disturbing that we are using everything from toasters to televisions that we cannot repair or create ourselves. Our society seems to create interdependence on systems from utilities to medical care and many things in between. I spend more time working to pay for the services I receive than actually learning how to do things for myself (or learning how to do WITHOUT things that require maintenance, replacements, etc.)
Why do we watch television? It is, at the heart of things, designed to provoke needs and wants — to create dissatisfaction with who we are or what we have – T or F?
Why is it impossible to find routes to work that don’t require driving?
Why must we put oursevles further into debt to become more educated in a way that employers recognize?
Why do we worship convenience and become impatient with human speed?
Why must things be faster, brighter, louder, bigger to fulfill our needs for ‘new’ things?
Help me understand, people