Hasta la vista, baby!
First of all, I am glad the water heater is still working. It has obviously outlived its warranty by factor 3. Unusual. But there are fewer thing/ks usual where we are, than the other way around. Generally this part of the world is referred to as being 'down there' by people who believe they are 'up there'. Asides from geographical differences, there is a striking difference between the other places I have lived in for longer than a year. It takes an artificially created unfolding situation though, to connect more dots and realize, that the 'big picture'- which occasionally is the parlor of the day - is actually much, much bigger than one could have imagined. Always is.
The bigger-bigger picture includes aspects that are generally and as frequently generously accepted, without ever giving them the attention they deserve. Because one aspect of the bigger-bigger picture is simply, that You can't take anything away just like that, that You can't expect anything to not change and finally, that You just can't add anything to what is.
Which leads to the core of the thought. What if so called 'Ethnicities', 'Races' and anthropological variances are all the result of how a group of people cares to live together - to socialize within apparent traditions, that lead these groups to form larger communities, or societies, all the while cementing a certain view point, or world view.
Calling it South America, or Latin America often causes ire, for there are those whom prefer one and those who prefer the other. For me it is more like 'Antamerica' because it is cold as You know what. But for some reasons - leaving indigenous people out of this - there seem to be no differences between various traditions and habits among the Antamerican Nations, when it comes to their mutual consumerism. That is the overarcing connection. There is a certain consumerism from the U.S. border down to Antarctica, that differs from all the other through more than a few aspects.
The most notable though, is the acceptance of garbage being sold to You and You accept to pay a higher price for it than anybody else in the Universe. Often, it just appears that people are demanding of those, who herd them, to get shafted, abused and exploited and that this seems to be expected of people for dealing with the original sin. I shit You not. Behind so many human shortcomings is this ever lurking 'original sin'. More troublesome though it also seems, that the acknowledgment of the original sin having taken place and that one can't get away from that - why not living up to it?
If I am already a sinner no matter what -what does it actually matter when I exploit those who demand to be exploited to pacify their conscience? Primed in such a way, a 'common' consumer has emerged that accepts garbage for high prices and rather than putting a lid on it, the consumers accept the rigging towards 'payments', or 'quotas' how it is called here. And when You look into a store window and see a sign that offers 'quotas' for articles in the $20 range, then You know that the brainwashing of the people south of the northern continent was highly successful. Instead of changing the rigged system, one transcends this dependency and apathy into a special quality. Like something You can stick to Your chest. A cross of sorts.
By now, the rabbit hole is already way, way deeper than any depth humans have ever drilled down, or dove down. Because the martyr-like self-representation of the consumers' obedience towards the production and distribution chain is absolute.
While I am happy that the above depicted water heater still works, it does so under the consumption of a shitload of Watts. More Watts than Alan. Which trans-lates/loads into mucho Uruguayan New Pesos. The house owners on the other side don't have a problem with the water heater at all. It works. And if it uses a lot more energy than 25 years its juniors, the wastefulness does not even occur to them. They do not have to pay for it. We do.
This wastefulness is also completely blended out when it comes to articles of consumption. Of course people here are as much on the shitty side of the stick than anywhere else. But to allow that to happen in such an obvious way is extremely startling. Especially now, with all the news about 'lost' jobs. There were no jobs lost - they were all eliminated. There's an ever so slightly difference...
So, the moment comes where it becomes all clearly visible. Our present, quite nasty unfolding event is actually due to the acceptance of planned obsolescence as being part of a thought 'model' that includes perpetual and eternal punishment for something that never happened. The 'sin' that is.
Conveniently though, the system flourished for a very long time and everybody was happy to buy ten pairs of shoes, where one adequately manufactured one would have lasted the same duration then those ten pairs of garbage.
Two month of intermittened use. Korium is the brand. You could argue that I bought these on sale...
It is with everything here. It is so blatent and obvious that it surpasses my greatest abilities to comprehend fully. Brutally deducted, I would say that people are working very hard to create a shitty life for themselves. Instead of rejecting the garbage, they consume it regardless of both the cost to their own life and the costs to the planet.
Planned obsolescence is the true malice of the world. It creates competitions to exploit the planet for the everflowing avalanches of our 'future garbage'. Since it requires some sort of transaction, the consumption process is then reduced to an alibi function. Buying stuff then is just to justify charging money for the transaction. It is no longer expected that the goods or services actually work, last, or show the promised effects.
Another example is this sponge that goes the extra mile when it comes to corporate audacity and manipulating of the mind. In case You missed it, but kitchen sponges are one of my favorite pet peeves. The damages to the planet are significant. There is a deluge of kitchen sponges that are thrown away in ever shorter cycles. After all, You want Your dishes to be clean, don't You? Exactly. Here, You will not be able to source any sponge that lasts longer than four weeks. Which is coincidently the replacement interval the WHO recommends to prevent corona and other diseases breeding in the kitchen sponge - or copulating what?
The easiest way to create garbage.
The brilliant idea is to write about and show little pictures of how the sponge will dissolve. Without telling You how long that will take. I tell You. Four weeks. And then it's trash. But the little pictures don't show that. And yes, it's plastic and I only purchased it by accident because my glasses are broken and I can't afford to go to the eye doctor and pay 300 quit plus the new glasses.
It's everywhere, too. Planned obsolescence is the single most devastating habit humans have ever come up with. And it looks like they rather go to war for, than to fight against it by simply no longer participating. Do Your own thing/ks. Reject anything corporate, or better even save the rejection energy by creating a shadow society for the future of mankind - if anybody cares for it to be one. That's important.
Can't have a peaceful future if the planet is destroyed because of religion.
Daily challenge from 05.09.2020:
Find out if any of the religious leaders ever mentioned 'planned obsolescence' in their sermons to their followers?
Update on the reading glasses:
I was hoping YinYang would be more approving of my botched up job. Partially, that is. Because when You have to mend You reading glasses - and You don't, like me have another pair - You need reading glasses to see what You are doing there. So, I didn't or only a fraction. Now I have to get like 4000 grit to smooth the frame back up and need to polish the lens that was straved by a polyester fiber. I know that You can't make stuff like this up...
Take care and have a real good time.