why can't i be calm. why am i anxious? these aren't so much questions as observations. i hink what bothers me is this whole dreadful planned obsolescence thing. i know, it's been going on since they began designing to fail in the 1920's when they decided a light bulb that lasted 100 years would not keep them in furs. but almost 100 years on we buy shoddy goods that are obsolete on delivery and begin to fail immediately, and after countelss cameras phones and computers i find my nerves frayed. this is not a peripheral thing, it undermines us individually, not even having the choice of a consumer to choose quality. and it is poisoning the world. we look at the extreme pollution in china and elsewhere driven by american consumerism and exploitation of cheap labor, and lookmat the landfill here filling with the toxic waste of these cheap toys designed to fail. we look with resignation, too used to this nightmare to wake and cry. too bowed down to stand up to the profiteers. this is our super-powered free trade. it's criminal.

planned obsolescence makes slaves and victims of each and every one of us.