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Plastic Bags and the Progress of Civilization
Sometimes I’m so thankful that things come in plastic bags. I open up my chicken breasts and they are clean and fresh and I dispose the packaging. It’s all made so easy.
When people say that all of time is cyclical, I wonder. They didn’t have plastic bags two thousand years ago. They had slavery and murder and war. But you still have that today; except instead of wearing chains you’re inculcated with propaganda. So things haven’t really changed at all. But what about the plastic bag? It makes it so much easier to eat. Yes but instead of learning where your food comes from, and appreciating it after having earned it, you sit in a cubicle and pretend to earn it and eat your hormone fed chicken from the grocery store. It may be easier, but is it any more true? That’s a good point, I tell myself, and I drift off to sleep.
But I wake in the morning, and think about my negative self, the pessimistic side as I use my modern plumbing which is much easier and more comfortable than any other option in history and as I take my coffee out of its plastic bag I think that we have come a ways since Ancient Times because more people have greater access to happiness than ever before. Even if it does come in the form of plastic bag wrapped chicken or modern plumbing.
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