finding myself
So called x-spurts, influencers and the almighty world of commerce and trade, always encourage us to charge forward to create our identity. This usually means consuming whatever product they are peddling at that moment. Sociologists call this Conspicuous Consumption is: " the practice of purchasing luxury goods and services to publicly display wealth, status, or social prestige rather than for functional utility ". This lifestyle is rarely good for your spirit, or the environment. It creates piles of "hard rubbish" for collection each few years as the new trend sweeps through your life. Many years ago a curmudgeonly TAFE teacher once told my class in welfare how ' the system" works. " The technology for storing and listening to music is far in advance of the shops. As they introduce music discs they have three completely different systems that will be placed on the market as the outdated system has saturated the market. They are now marketing the co...