The Story Of Stuff
Luckily, I was able to avoid enough of the holiday madness this year to not bring me to my almost annual Christmas rant. However, I still hold a deep distaste for how consumer-based our culture has become. It’s ironic that a holiday whose spirit gravitates around generosity and kindness actually tends more to bring out the ugliest sides of people’s character.
So instead of my going off for a few paragraphs about shit I’ve said before, I think I’m just going to link to a video that a friend of mine pointed toward me. This one is called The Story Of Stuff, hosted by Annie Leonard. There’s nothing about the video that we don’t already know somewhere in the back of our minds. I’d say it’s in the same spirit of the Game Boy Advance Rant I did a couple years ago. But it’s important that we expose ourselves to these types of media to bring that knowledge forward. When we actually put some cognitive thought into how the system is fucked up, it puts us into a better position to get ourselves out of it.
Below, you’ll see the introduction section of the video, but you can find the rest of the pieces under it’s YouTube profile or watch it in it’s entirety on it’s website.
