Gadget Anti-Thesis

The thesis of our age is that we are in a golden age of technology. We are further advanced than ever before and life is great. Every year, a new iPhone comes out. Every year, thousands of new gadgets are released in attempt to make our lives easier, better, and more enjoyable. We are all entering into this new age of lifestyle, where everything is about being easy. There are commercials about special knives that are easier to use, and hoses that do not tangle. These are very good examples that truly represent our lifestyle today. For example, even simple tasks such as eating corn now have a gadget to make it easier. In the image above there is a machine that cuts corn off the cobb. It isn't very big, but it does perfectly represent our current

Many of us can't imagine life without our cell phones. This lifestyle in the U.S has consequences, and an anti-thesis. The thesis of our age has an even stronger anti-thesis. We are all obsessed with having an amazing lifestyle with the latest gadget that is on the market, that we forget about the problems. We do not live on a perfect planet. Across the globe, people are starving to death, our planet is dying , and our new subjectivist society is destroying the values founded with objectivism that has guided us throughout the years. The first problem is that people, mostly children, are dying from lack of food. Every year, consumers in industrialized countries, such as the U.S waste almost as much food as the entire food production of sub-Saharan Africa (222 million vs. 230 million tons). Our lifestyle of wasting food is killing millions every year, yet many people throw away leftovers like its nothing. The chart on the left puts this issues in numbers, and the result is staggering. 40 percent of all the food produced in the United States is wasted. It is absolutely unbelievable how much we are throwing away when 21,000 people die a day from starvation. We are stuck in the cave,