<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # When we buy junk, we become junk. A disposable... > {{When we buy junk, we become junk.}} {{A disposable society is only fit for disposable people.}} {{The loss of craftsmanship to mechanization, specialization and outsourcing, and the orchestrated suffocation of talented tradespeople has turned America into a sweeping, franchised wasteland of disposable goods.}} {{We make junk, we consume junk and we are junk.}} One need not look too far to see entire communities in utter shambles. {{Planned obsolesce has fostered cities that look like above-ground landfills.}} These landfill cities are full of transient quasi-gypsy renter-citizens, whose household economic lifeline is subsidized by remote mega-corporations through their international exploitation operations. **Source:** [[books/Voice of Reason Book (2009-2012)|Voice of Reason]] <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->