The loss of craftsmanship to mechanization, specialization and outsourcing, and the orchestrated suffocation of talented tradespeople has turned America into a sweeping, franchised wasteland of disposable goods.
A disposable society is only fit for disposable people.
When we buy junk, we become junk.
In consumer life we become what we produce and consume — disposable junk to be used and thrown away.
Being a human product, versus a producer, makes people feel powerless as ultimately disposable commodities.
Human products see the world as a grand carnival of products.
People who work in corporations, like those working on assembly-lines, are not producers — they are products.
We see the world as we are, and also as we are treated and seen by others, and by our environmental situation.
When people are treated as creators versus products, materialism diminishes.
A culture that raises and grooms people to be human resource products in a marketplace cultivates non-individuals who experience life through materialism.
