As we become more acutely aware of our industry, what we actually produce, and how we do it, can we carry on in blissful ignorance?
What is the value of producing another chair, table lamp or bottle opener? We are not exactly pushing the threshold of technology using laser cutting and folding, cnc routing, or wire bending are we? No matter how you try to dress it up, it can't affect or enhance peoples lives that much. Water, energy, shelter, love and health affect peoples lives, not things. Things are a comfort and escape from the horribly insipid, consumer driven lives we lead, and an escape from our shallow existence.
Another mobile handset - really. How fantastic.
If we could measure the amount of joy objects bring against the amount of waste, pollution, energy consumption, and dissaffection that the money hungry capitalist consumption machine breeds, I am sure we would find a heavy weighting toward the negative.
If this is the case, then as intelligent, well rounded and highly educated individuals, with a supposed moral conscience - how can we carry on designing and filling the world full of more superfluous stuff?
Is it not a crime against humanity?
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