There Is Something Wrong With Society!

I don't know why we do it. I do it, you do it, we all do it. Do you ever think about it? What is it? It is the fact that we all give our money to companies that are constantly ruining our society. A woman came into my work during my shift and was harshly saying how she won't shop from a certain store because they support pornography. I have heard this many times and I have even used the following reasoning as an analogy for other situations that people bring up as various reasons for not shopping to a store or restaurant. The one question that I asked her was, do you shop at your local gas station or for that matter purchase gas? My next comment to her was they sell pornography! When I said that she said "wow I never thought of that".

That example was a very pithy example that has no effect outside of the United States. You can use the gas stations as another example the easiest and most well known example is gas itself! Who do we buy our gas from? We buy our gas from the middle east, enough said. That's only two examples and right there you are already assisting in two industries that are not doing anything good for the country. That brings me back my original question, why do we do it? Why do we buy product from places that use the money that we give them to buy more products that are damaging to our society? The answer in short is because we do. If you were expecting some profound answer I cannot give you one. Right now you may be feeling like you just read this for nothing, maybe you were looking for some sort of answer, to tell you the truth I don't have it.

I can tell you this though take three things that you use every day, for me it would be my computer, my car, and house. Now that you have your three things see how using them will negatively and positively impact society. For me my computer time is spent on the internet my internet is the local cable company who gives the service of pornography (if you purchase it) and internet (which has pornography on it) to people that like that sort of thing so that negatively effects society. But they also provide some good children and educational programming and allow me to do this, so that is a plus. Next my car, I use my car for work and I buy gas just as anyone does so I am guilty of giving money to companies that buy gas from places that I don't approve of. Last my house that is very broad but I use my house as shelter from rain, I use it to stay out of the heat and I use it to keep my goods and to power my goods, such as my computer and TV and cable which all lead back to something that can have negative effects on society.

By now you must be thinking that we are all doomed, that there is no way out and no matter what I do I will be giving people money that don't deserve it. I used the three things to illustrate that in all actuality there is very little that you can do and there is very little that I can do. But we are not doomed! There is a little thing that I would call intent, what are your intentions when you use the internet? What do you use the cable for? And What do you shop at the gas station for?

I would hope that the answer is "what I need to get by", because there are very few places that we can trust anymore, they all do it and no matter what you do there is almost not escaping it unless people all turn into hermits. So my one recommendation is to attack it at a lower level for example that local business that paints pictures and hangs signs that condemn our troops, don't eat there. But when you try to take it to a higher level it is nearly impossible, because when you are dealing with corporate companies in some cases you have to accept that capitalism must take its course. At the same time don't give up the fight, keep trying to find new way's to keep your money going to the right places.