All ye who live in corrupt suburban hells, your lives rotting in pollution and sick with obesity and disease: Rise up out of your ugly built environments, your vast expanses of grotesque urban sprawl, with your malls and highways filled with gasoline-burning vehicles that maim and kill and destroy.
Driving through Europe brings home just how much energy is used, and indeed wasted.
The roads are choked with traffic, which is often stalled in jams of cars carrying but one passenger in the most inefficient of ways ; the skies are criss-crossed with vapour trails ; the hotels are ablaze with light and deafened by the sound of awful electronic music; and the shops are full of people buying far from essential consumer goods.
Convoys of enormous trucks, burning up diesel fuel, keep the consumer outlets supplied, often from distant sources.
While most people seem to aspire to still more of the same,their appearance suggests stressful rather than happy lives as ill-clad and often obese men with shaved heads and aggressive semi-bearded chins lead over-weight women down the malls.
Violence and crime accompany the affluence, and international tensions grow in the quest for markets,financial hegemony and access to energy resources. The indigenous people of Europe are swamped with immigrants attracted by the affluence, who despite being urged to integrate, naturally find themselves isolated having been uprooted from their traditional lives and threads of mutual support. These developments seem to have been accompanied by changes of mindset : people no longer measure happiness or pleasure in abstract terms but rank them in monetary cost or the thrill of the bargain. The pleasure of a picture comes less from its artistic merit than its potential value at the auction house.
Many children spend their days glued to screens watching TV or playing gross computer games, hoping that Father Christmas will bring another sack of plastic toys to be duly stacked on shelves beneath the loudspeakers.
this is a partial quote ~ from goodness knows where ~ which made me think that others have the same outlook
