Thoughts

E.H mentioned something about culling animals earlier (somehow the conversation had gotten on to hunting). It just made me think about how people will try and convince you that wild animals will over-run if we do not hunt/shoott/kill them, but what about us? We are the worst affliction of this earth; our population rates are so high and will keep on increasing, but no one (except horrible dictators) will give you a lecture on how the human race should be culled to prevent the population over-running the planet.

I'm listening to a sociology lecture online; it really instils a sense of utter futility in a listener. It's about post-modernity and how everything we buy/choose/etc is consumerism. Even religion and lifestyle choice is a consumerism. Choosing to buy clothes without brands is also a kind of branding in itself, like saying 'look at me, I refuse to buy brands'. Buying clothes just because you like them is the same. Your clothing says something about you, it's no longer simply practical. We have all become the upper class when it comes to choice.