A friend sent me this clip on McCruelty.com recently.... I'm sure this is just the tip of an ice-berg; behind the colours and gleamours of shopping malls and excessive consumerism of the modern human society lies all these "dirty laundry" kept away from the public eye. Another example i can think of is the BIG LIE where we are being programmed that we can just go about our daily lives concentrating on the "Consumption bit" and ignore the Extraction, Production, Distribution that came before that and Disposal that comes after that....It's time we wake up from Truths like "Perceived Obsolescence" and "Planned Obsolescence" McCruelty: I'm Hatin' It--Learn More.
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Every time I walk by Orchard Central (an architectural monstrosity by day; a lit architectural monstrosity by night), disgust wells up within me!
Ditto for the other end of Orchard Road - The Ion!
Doesn't speak a lot about our creativity as a "wannabe global city" to have similar buildings at both ends of this "happening" belt, eh?