The Story of Stuff. The most fascinating thing I’ve seen on YouTube lately, but not for the reasons you think. Agree or disagree with this video, you can’t deny that it evokes some type of emotion in you. Weather you think it’s right or far out in left field, it has to make you think. I didn’t hear anything new in this video. I don’t think I learned anything new, but it did get me to think about something new.
I understand a little about the battle between the left and the right, the democrat and the republican, the environmentalist and the consumerist, the socialist and the capitalist, but not enough to sound intelligent.
What I do understand a little more though is the internal battle we all face, the questions that are always looming in our minds. The battle between right and wrong. Are we honoring God? Is this the best use of my resources? Are we teaching good values to our children? Are we on the right path? Will we look back 50 years from now and say… “we saw the signs” and did nothing or too little?
Why do we fight messages like this? Are we too afraid of what our answer will be? That we like the way we live right now, and we don’t really want to have to worry about who it’s affecting?
Are we afraid of anything that threatens our way of life? Do we think propaganda that tells us our spending habits are wrong is just rubbish?
I live in smaller house than most (in America), I wear secondhand clothes and recycle. Does that somehow make me more conscientious than the person who lives in a bigger house, drives a gas guzzler, wears the latest fashions and never thinks about the effects their consumerism has on the rest of the world? I don’t think so. I’m willing to bet that the small sacrifices I make, that I think make a difference, don’t really matter at all.
And that’s what this video got me to think about. That it’s not a battle between the person who thinks they’re doing their part to be green against the person who really could care less.
I think it’s more about a global conscience of humanity stopping the machine for just a minute and all of us asking “Is this right?” or “Is this wrong?” and being strong enough to face up to whatever answer we come up with. Then having the faith to look sin square in the face and say enough is enough… we’re not going to live in this limbo any longer. We’re tired of wondering if we’re making some terrible mistake… we need to know… for certain, that what we’re doing is right.
Can anyone say that for 100% certainty? That the way we live our lives today is totally completely God honoring? No, we can’t.
And why can’t we? Would it be so terrible to stop, think and ask the tough questions? Make small changes, make big changes, grow a couple of cajones and face up to the fact that we’re all riding a tidal wave without a life preserver.
I wonder what will happen to our precious planet and it’s resources? I wonder if we’ll ever stop the machine? Or, if we’re all so afraid that if we do, life as we know it will cease to exist, we’ll cease to exist? Or, one day will our race eventually drown in this sea of uncertainty?
