Consumerism & Relationships
A couple thoughts on consumerism, relationships, and the important role that every single one of us plays in improving or contributing to the many destructive practices that are wreaking havoc across the globe. One of the fundamental issues creating the chaos of our current world is our inability to see the relationships that form our reality. Cultures that were known to live sustainably harmoniously with nature shared at least one common trait: their ability to see not just what was in front of them, but the relationships that connected their experience to the rest of the world. This is problematic because reality IS a relationship. Studies in quantum physics have proved this time and again. Most people know this through the double-slit experiment where it was revealed, through repeated experiments, that objective reality doesn't exist in the way that we think it does. An observer is necessary to 'collapse' reality into a definite state. Prior to that, reality exists as ...