And... The Economy

I never studied economics. So I'm ignorant about how the economy works on the national, regional and global scale. Mind you, I'm probably not alone in that. And even the people who seem to know don't seem to know that much more.

I may well be wrong... but aren't we in trouble because we've filled our lives and our homes with crappy things that we don't need (at the same time as eating a lot of things that aren't actually food, and drinking a lot of things that are killing us)?

And now we don't have so much money, we're not buying so much crap. But because so many people's lives are bound up with making and selling crap to their fellow human beings, we're kind of stuck...

When we were all buying things that we didn't need like there was no tomorrow... we didn't realise that one day there would be no tomorrow...

Trouble In Store

I've just been standing in the queue at my local supermarket. And from where I stood, I could not see a shelf containing anything but alcohol, chocolate or tobacco.

Oh, plus a stack of pumpkins... being sold to be played with (for Halloween) rather than eaten.

So, basically no food in sight. And nothing that would really do you much good from a nutritional point of view.

In fact, even if you ventured into the foodier sections of the same establishment, you'd be hard-pressed to find any food that was either fresh or good for you.

As renegade medic Dr Vernon Coleman once pointed out in typically pithy style: "If you eat crap in packets, you'll feel like a packet of crap."

And crap in packets is so often all that surrounds us. It's depressing.