Well said fren and I agree. It is going to be a tough road ahead as a society to break the addiction to cheap disposable consumer goods and making products of quality not destined for the land fill every couple of years - if it even lasts that long. But it is hard to find products in the US that are made well. In order to compete, we too have given in to the cheap Chinese model.

I am old enough to remember the days when my father repaired household appliances himself if they had a problem. Just about everything could be repaired rather than replacing it with another piece of crap guaranteed to break not long after purchase. Everything now is designed with built in obsolescence.

People buy far too much useless crap that has fueled the materialistic current mindset of endless consumption. I only buy what I need and I don't mind spending the money for a better product. But that has gotten difficult because even products made in the US are sourcing parts from Asia.

I am not sure where all this is headed. The world we know is changing. Even the signs in the heavens are screaming change - revolutionary level change. But we must be the ones directing that change instead of those who desire to enslave us. God help us!