So, are you still an optimist?
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2030: ¿The End Of Owning?
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I am extremely optimistic, because decentralization of the means of production is increasing, and the rate of increase is increasing. When I make my own arrows, I don't want to burn them up in a ritual of devotion to endless labor. I want to make arrows that are so good I don't ever have to make arrows again.
Planned obsolescence is only useful to centralized production, and that is becoming obsolete.
Thanks!
I hope you are right my friend. :)
But the key thing to see here is how many people will be able to actually get rid of centralized production and planned obsolescence and still belong to the current society and civilization.
I am not aware of any parts of "the current society" that I particularly favor. I'm kind of a traditionalist, a conservator of the values and principles that guided our forefathers, and their forebears before them. Family, community, folks speaking forthrightly and earnestly to one another about things that mattered to them and each other, seeking to resolve problems and create felicity.
Not much of that being fostered by the WEF, the WHO, or national governments, in the Americas or elsewhere. At least not in anyplace that isn't being bombed by NATO, or raped to death by Israel. I don't reckon I am worried that people might disdain 'the current society', but rather am worried that people are accepting and stick to such.
I reckon that sovereigns that produce the goods and services themselves that they and their communities require will have the same traditions and principles as our distant forebears, before mass production and planned obsolescence created 'the current society' of fast fashion consumers and mass media talking heads sheeple. People that organized societies around mentoring their children to continue the family crafting business, tending to their gardens that produced most of their food, and to their livestock that produced the rest, and best of their food, getting together for festivals and celebrations of their faiths or traditions, producing and offering for sale in local markets their crops or products they manufactured in their cottage crafts, like haberdashery, chandlering, cordwainery, working in teams to bring in harvests of grains and corn in season, providing specialty services like farriers, wheelwrights, and etc.
Returning to decentralized production will restore society to the principles that arose from folks that depended on making what they needed, and depended on their community for the things they didn't make or do themselves. Individual sovereignty, honesty in speech and business, mutual aid and defense against enemies, free men being armed and in militias, and mothers teaching their children to read and write at home. I'll prefer that to censorship, propaganda, surveillance, 15 minute prisons, bugs for dinner, and Bill Gates jabs whether I like them or not.