Bulldozer00's Blog

Because it stirred up some internal energy, I intuitively navigated into this link from a recent,  Mr. Creative Class, Richard Florida tweet (Pod People < PopMatters). The quote that opens the piece:

The problem in our culture is not so much that there is too much stuff but that we are afflicted with insatiable egocentricity, which the stuff merely reflects. – Rob Horning,

really zinged me. Reading that quote triggered a Vulcan mind-meld (Bzzzzzt!) in my head with a recent quote that I saw from someone else (whom I don’t remember, but wish I did): “when the last tree is gone and the last drop of water is undrinkable, maybe we’ll finally realize that we can’t eat money“.

Alright, alright. Call me a self-righteous, hippocritical-institutional-paycheck-eating, (blah, blah, blah), tree-hugger if you’d like, but that’s the way I felt in the moment; even if that’s the way I wasn’t supposed to feel – according to you.