Planning Your Own Demise?
So, several nights ago, while sitting in bed caught somewhere between consciousness and slumber, I happened to catch Stone Phillips or one of those other late night news anchors casually toss out this intriguing sentence. I want to toss it out as fodder for those brighter than minds in our little blog-o-sphere...
Thoughts? Reflections?
"What would America be without planned obsolescence?"
Thoughts? Reflections?
posted by Eric at 10:31 AM
5 Comments:
A planned adolescence is a luxurious extravagance. It may be perhaps the sweetest deal of affluent, Western life. We bask and wade through this opulence without realizing the rare wealth that permits it. I'm grateful, but I wonder how it affects my camel's capacity to sew.
Just think what that would mean for the Detroit area! You might not even be living there.
After re-reading your post just a bit more carefully, I'd like to withdraw my previous comment, with shame and laughter.
Never mind.
Without planned obsolescence we'd be a lot slower.
So, now an attempt to shift from free market capitalism (of which I am grossly ignorant) to theology (of which I am only slightly less ignorant).
How does this idea, namely planned obsolescence, relate to the Christian notion of resurrection? How does Christian economic thought inform, critique, counter, and/or support the idea of planned obsolescence, which serves as a foundation of the capitalist structure, industry, and economic?
(Not attacking capitalism, persay; just a thought I am trying to consider so I do not dichotomize my faith my engagement in the real world.)
And yes, Don, we have tried to commit our own societal suicide (how have the "Big 3" been faring lately?) many a time here in Detroit. That is why I am doing mission work here! ;-)
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