Sometimes you go chugging through life wtihout poking your head up to see what’s really going on. I think I get like that a lot. And once in awhile you see or read or hear or watch something that jolts you into taking another look at everything.
Matt recently pointed me to something that lots of people have seen but was new to me. It was a 20-minute video called “The Story of Stuff” and it rocked my world. I know there are those who for whatever reason will try to poopoo her statistics and minimize what this woman Annie Leonard is trying to say in this video. And it’s likely that I wouldn’t see eye-to-eye with her on everything. But I’m convinced that she is onto something that most of ignore, and if she’s off in her stats, I suspect (fear?) that it’s not by much.
I won’t pontificate too much on this because i think the video speaks for itself and I think it will prompt you to do some thinking. On my end it is seriously making the question whether I am enslaved to the “golden arrow” (watch the video). It’s even made me take a long hard look at whether I will upgrade my Mac on the usual cycle or not (gasp!).
I appreciate that the site also offers a very simple practical list of ten ways we can do things another way. I hope you can see beyond whatever your political leanings may be and allow this video to at least prompt you to reconsider what role you play in the story of stuff…