Comments | mercury_phoenix: feeling lost...

mercury_phoenix

feeling lost...

Sep 20, 2007 21:06

I seem to go through very intense cycles of deranged optimism and merciless pessimism these days.

One minute I'll be thinking things just can't last the way they are; that sooner or later things have to break down, people have to rebel. Periods of extreme conventionality do tend to precede periods of social revolution, after all. And I get into ( Read more... )

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chibimuse September 21 2007, 16:53:07 UTC

I've been getting the global warming/human society sucks worries, due to receiving a two part lecture right now on that exact subject! The first part was all about how there is so much plastic in everything and it will be around for a loooong time and be poisonous, and that humans are the only species to cause a decline in all living systems everywhere.

If anyone can explain to me how this relates to my DESIGN class I will give them a cookie.

I think that's one of the reasons why I was so eager to move to vancouver, it just seems like things are being DONE here, people are trying to change things and sometimes they actually achieve it! Many people seem to be making the little changes that really matter.

mercury_phoenix September 22 2007, 02:50:52 UTC

...Because...erm...you must express through design...the human need to...get rid of plastic?

Seriously, though, I am very envious of your move; I think living here just frusterates me even more than life would otherwise. The thing is, little changes add up, but some people are just so blind to that, you know? Who gives a damn if it'll cost more money? *sigh*

chibimuse September 22 2007, 04:34:42 UTC

XD heck yes! Apparently this will all be cleared up in the coming second half of the lecture.

Yeah! We're doing the whole canvas bag at the grocery store part. When I buy large loads of groceries by myself (I mean like three large canvas bags with milk and cans and crap), the big men offer to help me out to my car, and then laugh when I say I have to take the bus. XP

I am capable of lifting a bag despite my minute appearance! They would laugh even harder if they knew I didn't have an elevator. Just goes to show how stupid our lifestyle is when people think you can't get by without a car!

I plan to attend my first rally tomorrow! It's a big protest against the raising of bus fares and the whole bus suck situation, especially that they're just aren't enough buses.

mercury_phoenix September 22 2007, 20:39:43 UTC

Well, when it is, you're going to have to pass it along, because now I'm curious!

I think it's terribly depressing - we live in a world where people drive to the corner store for some milk. Yay to you guys for the cloth bag thing - my mum is trying to take that up, but she keeps forgetting to take them in (no matter how much we lecture her...)

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darisu September 21 2007, 19:17:07 UTC

I don't think you need to worry about a mundane 9-5 job if you can't get a simple part time job...really the part time leads the mundane 9-5 ( ... )

mercury_phoenix September 22 2007, 03:00:10 UTC

Yeah, but one has less options for non-mundane, non-9-5 jobs if one has too many hangups to get the experience, you know?

The thing is, it really does make a difference, soap-boxing - it's just its a really small, terribly gradual difference, and people don't tend to notice. For example: all of the major grocery stores have big organic sections now, and a lot of people are buying from them, but nobody will admit that environmentalists have played a part in this change, and nobody will admit that "organic produce" was essentially unheard of only a few decades ago. So, you know, lecturing pays off...and I don't care if they hate me for it!

The problem is that you really need someone very charismatic for such things, and part of a persons charisma, I think, comes from being genuine. So, reciting speechs isn't really the key...Maybe I just need to find someone like that who I can bounce ideas off of ( ... )