OBSCENE CONSUMERISM
A blog friend, Insider writes, "I see a distressing drift in the UK toward American Capitalist values, obscene consumerism."
He is right of course, but I feel that the headlong drift to consumerism exists all over the world where the people are getting richer, not just in the West, but in countries like India and China, where they are exchanging their bicycles for cars, and the demand for consumer goods is going through the roof.
In the old days, peope said that you did not need to lock your door when you went out. That was true, because few houses had anything worth stealing in them. Today it is totally different, where every house appears to be stuffed to the rafters with all sorts of electronic wizardry, which quickly becomes oudated and has to be replaced with a newer version. Even I have so many little red lights and remote control sets that I get confused.
As I look out of this window, in the valley below, I see an old coal storage yard behind the railway station, which is now a 'Personal Storage Facility', where there are hundreds of containers which people hire to store all the stuff they cannot squeeze into their house. Total madness
This is partly why I have been going on so much about religion, which I consider has failed the people and not given spiritual leadership in todays world, and is so inward looking and engaged in silly disputes about gender and sex that it no longer taken seriously by the vast population of the world, who find it totally irelevent to their needs, hence they replace God with a computer chip, and shopping malls are the size of cathedrals, and somewhere for the family to go on Sunday mornings, to worship at the alter of Mammon.
'Thou shalt not covet thy neighbours ass ' does not seem to cut much ice today for some reason, I wonder why.
Must do a piece next about inventing a new religion for today's world.
