Nope. Not People. And not within a decade, a year, or a month. Turkeys. Yes, I'm talking about turkeys. Those ugly, yet tasty birds you probably don't give a damn about. 46 million dead for one occasion, one day. A day we give thanks. Thanks for the commercialization of inhumanity. Thanks for the cruel, artificial breeding of life. Thanks for the subsidized support of environmental destruction. Thanks for the gluttony.
"Bonus explanation: How do turkeys breed? With a little help from their human friends. These birds have been bred to produce as much white breast meat as possible, resulting in males so large and unwieldy that they can't properly mount the females. Toms therefore have to be manually stimulated and "milked" for their semen, which is then inserted into a hen using a syringe. Farmers also use artificial lights to trick birds into thinking that it's spring -- their natural breeding season -- all year-round, thereby increasing their production."
Saturday, November 29, 2008
Friday, November 28, 2008
Buy Nothing Day
Today is Buy Nothing Day. Today is also Black Friday. I chose to "celebrate" the former. Despite the $660 billion of advertisements spent every year to brainwash myself into thinking i need this and that, I refuse to go shopping for the sake of shopping, to walk around aimlessly hoping to buy something that'll keep me happy for a day, to encounter something I "need" when in reality I am and should be perfectly content with what I have given the 90% of the world's population who would do anything to be in my shoes.
Consumerism does not equate happiness. Sure, you get to put on a smile after buying a new shirt or gadget. But realize the pattern: IT NEVER ENDS and reverts to desiring MORE, MORE, and MORE. Consumerism feeds off of loneliness, discontent, an endless attempt to fill up life's holes with meaningless possessions.
And the consequences?
Air we can't breathe. Water we can't drink. Waste we can't see. Every time we consume and discard, we do not think twice, or even once, about the enormous resources used to provide our lazy asses with everything we want at our fingertips. Everything in nature is reused and self-sustained. Waste does not exist in nature. But as our piles of post-consummerism waste sit in landfills pumping gods-knows-what into the air, life is being destroyed--a fragile ecosystem that loses a species a day and will ultimately fuck up OUR survival.
A worldwide crisis of over-extended credit lines. This financial mess we're in has one culprit: consummerism. Greed on both ends appealed to the desires to consume, to want more, and to want it now. We don't give a damn about how the little things in our daily lives can compile to severly affect the future. And now we just need to pray to Obama as our savior and ask him to fix our personal mess, our lack of accountability, our damn stupidity.
Capitalism needs to consolidate. Only the necessary need to survive (goodbye GM). Learn to want less and be content with it. Today is a fine day to start.
Consumerism does not equate happiness. Sure, you get to put on a smile after buying a new shirt or gadget. But realize the pattern: IT NEVER ENDS and reverts to desiring MORE, MORE, and MORE. Consumerism feeds off of loneliness, discontent, an endless attempt to fill up life's holes with meaningless possessions.
And the consequences?
Air we can't breathe. Water we can't drink. Waste we can't see. Every time we consume and discard, we do not think twice, or even once, about the enormous resources used to provide our lazy asses with everything we want at our fingertips. Everything in nature is reused and self-sustained. Waste does not exist in nature. But as our piles of post-consummerism waste sit in landfills pumping gods-knows-what into the air, life is being destroyed--a fragile ecosystem that loses a species a day and will ultimately fuck up OUR survival.
A worldwide crisis of over-extended credit lines. This financial mess we're in has one culprit: consummerism. Greed on both ends appealed to the desires to consume, to want more, and to want it now. We don't give a damn about how the little things in our daily lives can compile to severly affect the future. And now we just need to pray to Obama as our savior and ask him to fix our personal mess, our lack of accountability, our damn stupidity.
Capitalism needs to consolidate. Only the necessary need to survive (goodbye GM). Learn to want less and be content with it. Today is a fine day to start.
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
We're DONE
After 6 hellish days of an emotional roller coaster with nearly no sleep, downing sugar-free Rockstars, dreams of spreadsheet panics, the worst junk food you can imagine, a mini drunkin thanksgiving feast, team bickerings and laughs, we finally finished our 129 page business plan--though not perfect, but beyond perfect for my jaded eyes.
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