I only re-wrote it over and over again. Regardless of what I was saying and all the various ways I tried to say it the post “read” awfully. Incapable of making the post read better and unwilling to publicize something I’m not proud of I’ve deleted the post and am now left with a blank screen. Well a mostly blank screen…
What do I put on it? After spending a great deal of time on the deleted post I’m still tempted to take another shot at it. My fingers are itching to type it up yet again. Instead, perhaps I’ll just say what it was about and then I can move on. I was trying to write about Consumerism and mass consumption. While I am interested in the development of these two phenomenon in the United States that isn’t what I was writing about. It was a more personal attempt to express my dissatisfaction with that lifestyle and the changes I’ve been making in my life in an attempt to move away from that lifestyle.
These first steps, out of necessity, have been small and I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to completely avoid Consumerism but I take the fact that I am now at least aware that this is a problem and one that I can rectify is an excellent start.
