The American Goddess Posse
Trash Show
Enjoyed the show today. Keep it up, Goddesses.
Thought I'd mention the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch," which is basically an underwater island made of plastic waste twice the size of the United States, that gives off toxic sludge into the ocean (which will eventually end up in the food chain and on your plate), moves around and periodically pukes up plastic garbage "confetti" onto places like Hawaii. It's largely made of things like plastic bags from stores. It's really surreal to read about. A good reason to bring a bag with you shopping. Lots of cities are already passing laws banning plastic bags or charging customers for them to discourage their use. (you can read about it here: http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/the-worlds-rubbish-dump-a-... )
Also, I think Glory was hinting at the term "planned obsolescence."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence
this article on wikipedia has a whole classification of different kinds of planned obsolescence. Style obsolescence where things seem out of date or old fashioned based on aesthetic design, systematic obsolescence, where the service, maintenance or something like software used with a product changes, making it impossible to use (this happened with me and an otherwise perfectly good scanner recently),notification obsolescence where the product itself tells you when to get a new one like when a strip on a razor turns green, even if you don't really need a new one, and just plain old technical/functional obsolescence where parts aren't made well enough to last the entire life of a product.
Here's a good, concise way of accounting for why planned obsolescence happens parts in brackets are mine:
"The bourgeoisie [i.e. capitalism itself] cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society [New! Improved! Better!]. Conservation of the old modes of production in unaltered form, was, on the contrary, the first condition of existence for all earlier industrial classes. Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind."
Fox News' favorite "ultimate boogeyman", Karl Marx
(i'm not a doctrinaire communist, btw, just think the guy had a pretty good grip on what the future of was going to look like from his little corner of the 1890's).
Thought I'd mention the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch," which is basically an underwater island made of plastic waste twice the size of the United States, that gives off toxic sludge into the ocean (which will eventually end up in the food chain and on your plate), moves around and periodically pukes up plastic garbage "confetti" onto places like Hawaii. It's largely made of things like plastic bags from stores. It's really surreal to read about. A good reason to bring a bag with you shopping. Lots of cities are already passing laws banning plastic bags or charging customers for them to discourage their use. (you can read about it here: http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/the-worlds-rubbish-dump-a-... )
Also, I think Glory was hinting at the term "planned obsolescence."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence
this article on wikipedia has a whole classification of different kinds of planned obsolescence. Style obsolescence where things seem out of date or old fashioned based on aesthetic design, systematic obsolescence, where the service, maintenance or something like software used with a product changes, making it impossible to use (this happened with me and an otherwise perfectly good scanner recently),notification obsolescence where the product itself tells you when to get a new one like when a strip on a razor turns green, even if you don't really need a new one, and just plain old technical/functional obsolescence where parts aren't made well enough to last the entire life of a product.
Here's a good, concise way of accounting for why planned obsolescence happens parts in brackets are mine:
"The bourgeoisie [i.e. capitalism itself] cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society [New! Improved! Better!]. Conservation of the old modes of production in unaltered form, was, on the contrary, the first condition of existence for all earlier industrial classes. Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind."
Fox News' favorite "ultimate boogeyman", Karl Marx
(i'm not a doctrinaire communist, btw, just think the guy had a pretty good grip on what the future of was going to look like from his little corner of the 1890's).
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