Followup on “The Story of Stuff” review
Question:
[In regards to the review of Annie Leonard’s “The Story of Stuff”]
Do you still feel the same way you did in 2007, now that we have the current economic situation on our hands?
Respectfully,
Brian
Answer:
I do. I say that because the economy doesn’t affect my opinion of “The Story of Stuff”. I didn’t suddenly say, “Well, the economy’s horrible (really horrible – I live in Michigan!), I guess everything Ms. Leonard said is right“.
Besides, I’m not always a pessimist – I think we’ve had some pretty cool things happen since 2007, too, both from political, social and technological standpoints. Many of these were brought to us by the very things Ms. Leonard is against.
So no, my opinion remains the same: I think some of her ideas were in the right place, and I agreed with a few. But others I still feel were either alarmist or just plain wrong.
Cdinsky:
Well yes. Even more so.
But I’m beginning to think this is all inevitable. We humans seem to be designed to take our own selfishness to the nth degree so that we actually end up consuming and/or destroying ourselves. Without fail.
Not all of us are like this… but those who ARE live like unstoppable parasitic voracious molds that unstoppably consume everything in sight.
Fat rises to the top. Fat stock traders, fat bankers, fat politicians, fat industrialists, fat everything. Fat begets more fat and craves more fat. That’s the nature of Fat.
Fat wants to completely dominate and control. But of course it would… it must feed itself. And, FAT believes it’s NEVER ENOUGH.
What else would we expect FATS to do – give in and love the planet, love their neighbors as themselves, believe there’s a God?
Silly goose. The little people are chattel. Little ‘pooples’ actually.
We’re just little pooples to THEM… On that note, how about something positive? Annie Leonard has a new “Story of Bottled Water.” http://StoryofBottledWater.org
I’m not sure why she bothers trying to help us all see the folly of our ways. What’s the point? We’re just… Fats.
Oh well! Now scuse me while i lumber off to chug some soda and burgers. Not.
22 March 2010, 2:46 pmFrank Lin:
I too feel that the film glossed oversimplified some bits and pulled facts out of thin air. I did buy her new(ish) book however and just finished reading through it.
The book talks about a lot of things happen in developing countries (out of our view) and explains the concepts from the film in great detail.
Read the book and let us know what you think!
6 July 2010, 11:42 pmBrice B.:
It’s disappointing when someone says humans are inherently flawed, so we’re more or less doomed. That is just another way of shirking responsibility. There is no logical reason to blame the gods, so to speak, for the environmental mess we are in. Crows aren’t flawed. Dolphins aren’t flawed. Rabbits aren’t flawed. Why would humans be? We are animals, after all, and homo sapiens were doing just fine for the first 190,000 years or so of their existence. The planet didn’t start getting destroyed until the so-called “Agricultural Revolution.” Something has gone wrong…
To anyone interested in making sure our species and countless others survive past the next couple centuries, I recommend reading Ishmael by Daniel Quinn. It’s incredibly informative and has me thinking it’s not too late yet to make a difference.
4 February 2011, 7:37 pm