With All Due Respect, You Don't Get It...
A message to all Amerikan social activists and concerned citizens…
While I applaud your intentions in attempting to resolve your targeted economic or environmental problem—burgeoning federal deficits/debt, our dependence on oil, foreign ownership, global warming, poverty—you are wasting your time and resources. The problem that you are addressing is merely a derivative or by-product of a more fundamental Amerikan problem, our addiction to excessive consumption—living beyond our means in order to perpetuate our inflated lifestyles. You cannot possibly resolve your targeted problem unless and until we first terminate our addiction to excessive consumption.
Why?
As long as we remain junkies, addicted to excessive consumption and our resulting inflated lifestyles, we will find ways to score—that is, we will continue to commit economic and environmental indiscretions in order to live beyond our means. And, we will always be able to commit economic and environmental indiscretions at a much greater rate than the rate at which they can be remedied by social activists and concerned citizens.
The reality is that all attempts to resolve our economic and environmental problems, in the absence of first terminating our addiction to excessive consumption, are of no permanent consequence and are a waste of time and resources. These efforts are tantamount to issuing buckets and mops to clean up the mess resulting from a water main break, while neglecting to first close the valve.
Compounding the futility associated with these current problem solving efforts is the fact that the fragmented and disjointed agendas endorsed by today’s social activists and concerned citizens—thousands of competing causes with competing messages—send conflicting and confusing messages to the Amerikan public. The result is apathy or even resistance to “social causes” by mainstream Amerika, who are simply overwhelmed by information overload.
Today’s fragmented economic and environmental problem solving efforts, which target currently insoluble problems, must be re-channeled into a single, focused, well-orchestrated effort that targets the underlying cause associated with all of our pressing economic and environmental problems—our addiction to excessive consumption. We must eradicate the source before we can effectively resolve the derivatives, which will require a concerted effort on the part of all Amerikans.
“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.” Henry David Thoreau
(Please see www.wakeupamerika.com for details.)
While I applaud your intentions in attempting to resolve your targeted economic or environmental problem—burgeoning federal deficits/debt, our dependence on oil, foreign ownership, global warming, poverty—you are wasting your time and resources. The problem that you are addressing is merely a derivative or by-product of a more fundamental Amerikan problem, our addiction to excessive consumption—living beyond our means in order to perpetuate our inflated lifestyles. You cannot possibly resolve your targeted problem unless and until we first terminate our addiction to excessive consumption.
Why?
As long as we remain junkies, addicted to excessive consumption and our resulting inflated lifestyles, we will find ways to score—that is, we will continue to commit economic and environmental indiscretions in order to live beyond our means. And, we will always be able to commit economic and environmental indiscretions at a much greater rate than the rate at which they can be remedied by social activists and concerned citizens.
The reality is that all attempts to resolve our economic and environmental problems, in the absence of first terminating our addiction to excessive consumption, are of no permanent consequence and are a waste of time and resources. These efforts are tantamount to issuing buckets and mops to clean up the mess resulting from a water main break, while neglecting to first close the valve.
Compounding the futility associated with these current problem solving efforts is the fact that the fragmented and disjointed agendas endorsed by today’s social activists and concerned citizens—thousands of competing causes with competing messages—send conflicting and confusing messages to the Amerikan public. The result is apathy or even resistance to “social causes” by mainstream Amerika, who are simply overwhelmed by information overload.
Today’s fragmented economic and environmental problem solving efforts, which target currently insoluble problems, must be re-channeled into a single, focused, well-orchestrated effort that targets the underlying cause associated with all of our pressing economic and environmental problems—our addiction to excessive consumption. We must eradicate the source before we can effectively resolve the derivatives, which will require a concerted effort on the part of all Amerikans.
“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.” Henry David Thoreau
(Please see www.wakeupamerika.com for details.)
posted by Chris Clugston at 11/13/2006 09:33:00 AM
3 Comments:
Interesting site & arguments, do you still plan on updating this on occasion?
Hi Chris,
This is KMO of the C-Realm Podcast. I checked in to your blog to see if you had any comment on the recent market developments and the scramble in DC to give cash away in the name of "economic stimulus."
If you wanted to write a short commentary and email it to me, I'd read it on tomorrow's program.
Stay well.
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