Until we wean ourselves off of $1 plastic toothbrushes, $2/gal milk, bitching and moaning about $4 a dozen eggs, expecting local out of season produce 24/7/365, $10 combo's, hair on fire when gas hits $4/gal, insistence on homes twice as big than we need in giant subdivisions that clear cut trees for room to pack the giant houses so close together you can toss your neighbor toilet paper from your own bathroom, cars 5 times bigger than we need even electric, pretty green grass and perfectly manicured landscaping for our mini castles, $3 duct tape, overnight or same day delivery of every ticky tacky piece of shit you can think of, just all of this useless ridiculous capitalist ticky tacky shit everywhere, you get the picture. And I'm just talking about 300 million in the US.
We want, want, want but we don't need this ticky tacky shit, we're addicted to it. And the corporate pushers from big oil to shampoo manufactures to toy makers are happy to be the pushers on the corner, yet we completely blame them while never looking in the mirror. It's the addiction to this cheap ticky tacky shit that poisons the water and air around the world.
Our kids and grand kids are fucked plain and simple and it's the heaviest weight I will take to my grave that I did it to them. My greed, my want for the everything the 20th century had to offer, my selfishness and lack of personal fore thought for more than half my life has put upon them an unfair burden they may not recover from.
I'll be gone when the shit really hits the fan and I'm so very very sorry, nothing can hold back my shame. And, so unfairly, the best chance our kids future has is to do the complete opposite of what we did. I don't blame those who understand a damn bit for being pissed as fuck for what we've left them and for those who don't get it, who will bitch if they can't that $1 plastic tooth brush, we must do more.
I apologize for my generation, the Ticky Tacky generation
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