By: david

david — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:13:44 +0000

Yea, I dont like them either. Most people will buy a new one every couple of years, and then we end up w/more e-waste. Books are the way to go.

By: Martin

Martin — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:51:07 +0000

I was trying to decide where I stood with reference to eReaders like the the Kindle recently. I decided that they would have been a great idea if they were built to last for a lifetime. I’m 110% sure that they are not. A book will last for much longer, especially if it is cared for by a library when not in use.

By: Aaron Malys

Aaron Malys — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:11:15 +0000

Until we learn to consume and purchase on a quality based model again, I fear this will go one for the foreseeable future. Society is so wrapped up in instant gratification that they cannot see beyond the moment much less the day, week, month or year. We must learn to use what we have, repair instead of toss and when we do purchase to purchase products that are preowned if possible and if not purchase based on a products usefulness and longevity.

By: Uncle B

Uncle B — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:18:49 +0000

Psycho-consumerism, propagandized by wild-eyed, highly commissioned, advertising agents, and huge psychology-based think tanks of the corporatists, have created the “American Dream” illusions! We the people have not held them, or their motives in suspicion! They are a clever lot, these advertising folk of corporate support, and they have us totally hoodwinked into massive overconsumption – to the point where our over sized bodies don’t fit our huge SUV’s and McMansions are built for commissions, to builders and lenders, and to be foreclosed, to churn municipal monies and lot sales, not for human habitation and survival of humanity in economic downturns at all! This mass – indoctrination by the corporatists of America has left the people in the streets over-extended, living beyond their means to fulfill somebody else’s wildest dreams and convinced that the only lifestyle yielding satisfaction and happiness is the propagandists’ unsustainable but highly profitable nonsense! Planned obsolescence and annual model changes to exploit human pride, were the downfall of the unsustainable American automotive industry and its’ slick psychologies, and likewise, corn based industries are about to fall! Corn production in America is directly controlled by the price and availability of oil! The “Cheap Oil Era” yielded the “Cheap Corn Era”! Americans built a Factory Farm industry, and all that follows, and depends on the Factory Farm industry, on this one axiom! All will fall like a “house of cards” when Oil becomes scarce or expensive – this time has come! Oil broke $75.00bbl this week! Asians out-bid Americans for oil today, and their demand grows exponentially as the supply of oil declines in similar fashion! Corn Ethanol, is soon to become a rare commodity in the U.S.! corn based sweeteners – same story! Cheap meat – same story, Sweetened cereals – same story! Plastics – all oil based, soon to see huge price increases! Our throw-away society, based on plastics soon to be forced out of the market-place! We have no substitute for Oil! Solar, Wave, Wind, Hydro, Tidal,and Geo-Thermal provide Power on perpetual scale,no doubt! Nuclear helps, providing, dirty power, but fast and steady! But: Only oil yields hydrocarbons,and cheap corn, and liquid fuels, and plastics, and fertilizers, and asphalt, for roadways, and chemicals – we will have to choose where we use scarcer, costlier, oil in the near future, just to survive, and psycho-consumerism will not out-rank heat for homes, fuel for cars. The Great American paradigm shift has begun! We are being morphed by forces outside our control into the new,”Fourth Turning” and the true “Age of Aquarius” by Mother Nature herself! Watch for astounding, fast, changes, in a computer driven age, with high tech communications, and stellar, cutting computer derived precision. Watch for Asia, more intellectual power than America ever had, and hungry for everything America has, Watch for the World Monetary System to convulse, Watch for food shortages in America, Polluted waters, no longer free and clean, to come into play, and massive societal turmoil, even to the streets, as the Urban folks seek food, employment and heat, Rural folks dig in, and the age of the oil wars in the world begins! Iran, just sold the South Azadegan Oil Field, the biggest find in the last thirty years in the Middle East, to China! Expect Chinese plutonium and Chinese delivery systems for it there, soon! To protect Chinese Oil! And Afghanistan? Halliburton(Dubai)’s play for a pipeline to Turkmenistan and China’s oil fields there? Look for a Nuclear confrontation with China as the end result of that folly! All this for American psycho-consumerism and a “Throw -Away ” society? Yes! and wars in Mexican streets for drug-sales rights in America too! and the American dollar, the object of all this evil, in free-fall, with gold breaking $1100.00 U.S. Yesterday! I smell calamity on the wind! Do you? Consumerism be damned!

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