Consumers Restrain Spending; Recessionary Mindset Lingers

[Ian_rd]

3. How crazy it is ...

that we as human beings have ended up with an economic system that depends on consuming more than we need in a wasteful and destructive manner.

I wonder if we even have much choice in the matter. Perhaps we're just executing our genetic programming to consume, multiply, consume, and multiply.

Up close, we are independent and individual intelligences who practice free will. But if there are aliens far away looking at us through telescopes, the undeniable pattern of our species would be undeniable. Like unthinking ants or viruses, we're simply doing what we're programmed to do.