fashionRIP: Heartbreaker

Thursday, August 4, 2011

Heartbreaker

A great retro street look, denim studded vest updated with head kerchief.

This photo is totally attached to the catch 22 of USA "market driven economies." The paradigm that provokes people with the need to stay current, cool and in step with style, be it framed in technology, fashion, automobiles or home decor, needs to be faced and called out for what it really is,a giant resource abusive hoax.

The fact that we in the USA (along with Europe and Japan, the wealthiest 16-20% depending on the source) use 80% of the world's resources is a big problem. The capitalization process that has generated this consumption has simultaneously created a culture that attempts to get its head and heart around what can only be called a sociopathic mindset. It is creating a lot of dis-ease - more people in jail, more suicides, more "normed" physical and mental problems, allergies and angst.

The distort between love thy neighbors, but be able to punch out, exploit, fire, or walk all over them at any given moment because it's a dog eat dog world, has wrapped insanity into a business as usual paradigm accepted as the real world. This needs addressing.

It is fundamentally wrong and will not have a good outcome no matter how many band aids we apply. The cancer that is at the center of the problem will grow until starved by lack of participation and energy. This will happen "naturally" or by human intervention. The latter appears the better course.

In the meantime, i gave "the punk" a dollar for the photo, asked him his story and "there but for fortune..."

It needn't be this way. "Reality" will dissipate with lack of interest if we focus energy on building new, diverse means of economic stability that are guided by what we now know. Current science about nature, biology, human development and potential, quantum physics, more and ideas about spirituality have advanced significantly since we started this journey. A catchup is in order.

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Why it Matters

What's the matter with more and more fashion choices?

It sounds good; we love to be able to pick the perfect outfit. You wear it once or twice and then ....what was the real cost here?

Your time to shop and the money spent, not so much ....go a little deeper and consider the fiber source, the dyes and chemicals used, the health toll on the workers, the energy to run the machines, the transporting carbons...and now it just takes up closet space. But so what? It's been going on for-almost-ever and you didn't make the rules.

In fact we are told this is what a "healthy" economy looks like.

You will recycle it after all, give it to charity or your sister. This is more transportation and more release of those greenhouse gases. We are using a lot of our personal energy and the resources of this planet to make, use and dump "trash" Some rags, remnants and tawdry bits will molder for eons in landfills, as nature's microbial actions are hampered by our normalized, everyday toxic lifestyles.

This goes beyond dumps as the breakdown cycle that nourishes the life of this planet has been sorely challenged by GMO crops, fertilizers, pesticides, antimicrobials..RIGHT!!. All the "living better through chemistry" propaganda after WWI and II- AKA how to sell your "garbage," is our legacy. Well no more, not on my (our) watch, we are seeing things quite differently.

As we now carry 298 toxins in our bods that weren't there in the 1930s the toxic residues of normal are haunting us more and more. Ironic, no? Advanced is merely a word.

Go to the So Whats the Point blog in February for the numbers.

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Extinctions ...So What?

Life evolves, some species survive some don't. We like to allude to Darwin's "natural selection" or Herbert Spencer's "survival of the fittest" because we are so good at reproducing and taking over this planet and justifying that side of our natures. The fact that we are wiping out the food chain by destroying habitat, fouling air and water and generally behaving like arrogant, tinkering idiots, is called business as usual. .....Well I and others are no longer buying that "sell."

We are wising up to the idea that we too, are dependent on these resources. We too, are physically an organic species and we really don't know what little extinction will be the start of the chain reaction that collapses the structure that we too, are dependent on.

Is this the price we are willing to pay for a pair of plastic shoes?

I say no, that despite the focus on the physical, we are more. We are heart and soul, mind, body, spirit. We are born of stars and we can and will leap over this world view based in old, untrue beliefs led by a science of isolation and religions of patriarchal, hierarchical constructs (your basic dominating Dad- with self reflective rights to rule). It is time to come together and heal. To transition into our fuller expectations and open the new possibilities. We are born with genius...let us help each other get to where we all can shine.