The Story of Stuff Project
Turning a movie into a movement
From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmen ...learn more
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Created: Mar 10, 2009
Updated: Nov 22, 2009
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Topic: How Has the Movie Changed You?
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The fundamental consumerist delusion is that purchases affect the way we’re treated according to Geoffrey Miller.
We have to not only fight these evolutionary urges but also need to fight the conditioning of our social culture which uses these evolutionary "flaws" to trap us into believing that material things will make us happy. What we want is community, brotherhood, friendship - and we purchase things in the false belief that those things will provide the social ties that we so desperately crave.
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T These are things that I've known for a long time. We are such consumer driven people. The thing that got me was the stuff about products that are made to break. Made to break so we have to buy more to replace them. That makes me so angry! I sent the video to everyone I know, because I feel like it's a great way for people to understand the situation that we're in. |
For me, it was a reaffirmation of the things I've learned about and seen in our built environment. The fact that every thing in my life comes from something, somewhere, somehow and will end up as some other thing, some other where, and some other how, has made me more cautious about acquiring things and throwing them away.
This is really not easy to do, first and foremost due to the lack of information about the origins and ends of things in my part of the world. Perhaps the safest way is to live with the least amount of things and find contentment beyond things? That again, is not easy too!
How about you?