No more things!

Stop making things until all existing things are done

 

Are you not sick of all the things? Everywhere is full of things, and the things do not seem to ever stop coming! We have more things we know what to do with. One would think the earth has enough things—one would think it would be good to use all the things before we start making new. But no, we keep making more and more things, and coming up with even more things to make. Every day, there are tons of new things, things we already have, and also new things we have not had before. We are told we ‘need’ new things, and that it is very good that there are all these things and that newer things will be coming. The mark of human progress, we are even told, is this power of coming up with new things to make!

 

What is the result of all this thing-making? There is trash everywhere, human imagination is wasted on thinking of new things to make, when we are not even done with the things that already are! We become useless because things are made to do everything for us, and then we get bored because we are not really doing anything. Things take up all the space, and digital things suck up all the energy. Eventually, with all these things, there won’t be space for the people or animals or plants or rivers, or there won’t be any stuff left to make new things from, or the planet is just going to fall out of its orbit because of the weight of all these things, or we will have to use our own energy to power the things that make things, or something equally bad or even worse will happen.

 

 

Things are supposed to be for us, not us for the things!

 

Clearly, all this thing-making is a problem.

 

The solution? No more new things until we are done with the old things!