The Rewards of Recycling
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Loading ...Money its the defining factor, perhaps it always was, but with the iPod, plastic bag (or is that eco cotton bag) and the society these things exist in, it never stops being about money. From the way you present yourself , the presentation of possesion and consumption, to your job (and whether you have one) your health and hearth, make do and mend, renew and recycle… its all about money.
Yes you say, but thats the way its always been…maybe. However this used to be offset by family, community and society. We might have felt, however erroneously, that we had a say and a share in society at large.
I have always beleived in the collective as opposed to simply the rights and desires of the individual. I beleive in the family community and society. My rider to this is that an individuals space and right to individuate need care and protection within the collective/community. Put simply its why we have a lock on the bathroom door
The collective has in past years undergone a degradation, for example in sciences view on “wholistic medicine” or in the political view that their is no such thing as society, health and social care are bottom lined by money and costs,the social view that families are full of abuse and naturally dysfunctional, or that communities are easily divided by prejudice and hate.
This subtle attack on what I call the collective and which is seen by others in the social forms of family community and society, has eroded our ties, the things that bond us, so we begin, really rather like this article, to see our differences rather than our similarities and one the great differences is….money.
We no longer talk of redistribution of wealth, even equality is a dirty word, it has been replaced by equitable and equitable access.
We might think that the new green and ecological outlook would be a bonding and stabilising factor, yet many of its functions have been converted into consumer goods, they either claim to save money or involve you paying more money in order to have a “clean” conscience. Look at the price of wind turbines, or the cost of organic food. Even worse we are encouraged to recycle and may even be legislated on to force us to recycle, someone makes money from the goods we recycle and we will be fined if we don’t comply.
Money not used as a carrot but a stick, its so all pervasive we hardly notice, when its used against us. Why not offer people rewards for recycling, like vouchers for a wind turbine or some organic fruit…I say this slightly cynically but its still a good idea.
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