Simplicity is best
In our day and age, it feels as though everything must be incredibly complicated to get anywhere. Any given company must sell all the things every other given company are selling in order to make profit. Every shop must be a 'one stop shop' to remain a shop at all. Cafes have to serve items with twenty different flavor combinations.
And not just this, but 'all natural' is now equated with 'bland' and 'boring'. Anything that doesn't have additives and corn syrup and artificial flavors added to really make it pop is considered lack-luster and uninspiring.
Contrary to popular belief, simplicity is still the key to an abundant existence. We have mucked up our lives with excess and with additives so much that we have lost the true flavors of life. We have lost the true scent, the true feeling, the original texture of the way we were meant to live.
We have lost the flavor of simply nuts and honey. We have strayed from the pure enjoyment of a perfectly crafted loaf of fresh bread. We have forgotten the smell of real vegetables being cooked over real fire.
We have lived so long in a canned, pre-packaged society that our thoughts and our motives and our passions have become stale and processed and bland. The lives we live are uninspired and uninspiring. We have become a society who's brain has been canned and set up on a shelf, and we have replaced it with the garbage the big money-making profiteers have been selling us for decades.
It's time to wake up America, and remember the smell of being alive.
And not just this, but 'all natural' is now equated with 'bland' and 'boring'. Anything that doesn't have additives and corn syrup and artificial flavors added to really make it pop is considered lack-luster and uninspiring.
Contrary to popular belief, simplicity is still the key to an abundant existence. We have mucked up our lives with excess and with additives so much that we have lost the true flavors of life. We have lost the true scent, the true feeling, the original texture of the way we were meant to live.
We have lost the flavor of simply nuts and honey. We have strayed from the pure enjoyment of a perfectly crafted loaf of fresh bread. We have forgotten the smell of real vegetables being cooked over real fire.
We have lived so long in a canned, pre-packaged society that our thoughts and our motives and our passions have become stale and processed and bland. The lives we live are uninspired and uninspiring. We have become a society who's brain has been canned and set up on a shelf, and we have replaced it with the garbage the big money-making profiteers have been selling us for decades.
It's time to wake up America, and remember the smell of being alive.
4 Thought(s):
BS--Plain and simple. This is what you want the world to be so that you can complain about it. The "all-natural" and "organic" market are growing faster than all other markets. People clammer for simple, real and close to earth. People have been shunning the prepackaged, death trap foods for close on a decade. Your dire warning is good--for the 1980's but is over in the 2000's. Take a look around you and see what people are actually doing, not what people are complaining about!
Go in your cabinets and refrigerator and freezer, please. Take out anything that has an artificial ingredient, preservative, artificial color, or high fructose corn syrup.
Make a list.
Add to that anything that is in a can.
After that, find all the things that contain only all-natural ingredients without any additives whatsoever.
Make another list.
From that list, strike off anything that isn't certificed organic.
Compare that list to the first list.
Now tell me, how good are you doing?
You clearly haven't looked in our cabinets. For starters, homemade bread is usually all that we have available. Our new favorite is the sour dough that Jeff made from his own starter. Topped with homemade feta cheese is the children's favorite. The refrigerator is full of homemade dishes and produce. Fresh grown oranges and tangerines fill the bowl on the table and a bag in the dining room. Homemade cottage cheese in the freezer will soon be homemade blintzees. Perhaps topped with peach jam, canned from the peaches that we grow in the back yard.
"All natural" is about the most trendy thing around these days. All though truly, most people clamoring for "all natural" don't even have tree or garden of their own.
Rali--Mary put it best. I think you should perhaps get out of your media influenced mindset and take a look at how people are actually living! I would venture to say that a couple living in an apartment at the center of a major metropolis have little ability to comment on how people should live more simply or naturally. Examine your Grandfather's life. If you truly believe what you propound, emulate him. He lives a simple existence, deriving most of his energy and sustenance from the earth. Yet, he does not preach or advocate against others. He simply leads an example for others to follow.
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