Ah, Chris. Who would seek to add a rebuff of your article. It's too serious for that. Yes, you'll attract the usual critics who know deep down in their own hearts that the article reflects the past accurately as well as the future, but they'll knock you anyway because they can't handle the fear of their eventual loss of "stuff."
"Stuff" is like an addictive drug to most and I'm afraid I'm little different than the great hoarding masses. Many years ago, I bought a bush block 30k's S/W of a major Victorian city, firstly to get away from some "unseen force" and when I finally realised what that force was, human greed and materialism, I began a quest for self sustainability. I "downshifted" and re-educated myself which enabled me to work half hours with a reasonable pay rate. At the half way mark of sustainability, I came to realise just how hooked on materialism we all are. I could (if I had to) do without a job, a car, television, power, in fact all the trappings of a modern household and yet the one thing I can't get away from is the fact that if I don't pay my Council rates each year, eventually the money making machine will tip me into the street. To give up most things is mere sacrifice. To lose everything is tradgic. At my age I couldn't recover and so I keep myself tied to the money machine unable to free myself form it's bonds.
I'm middle aged and most likely will be uneffected by the results of the mad rush to control the World's remaining resources. It's my children and grandchildren I fear for. My sons dismiss me as eccentric whilst they persue the money machine. My only hope is that I live long enough to show them how to live when the excrement finally hits the fan. I doubt it will be all that far into the future.

Great story. It had stuff in it. I like stuff..

stuff weighs you down

Excellent Chris, makes a nice popular introduction to the depletionist epiphany, long may the Church of Less dematerialise.

Great work Chris, quite a laugh, Cheney was created by the great machine, but born to be ridiculed.

Great post Aime, you have summed up a conflict I have had for quite a while. I hate materialism but I am tied to the money machine, to completley free yourself from the money machine inevitably means you live on the charity of others, and I would rather be tied to the money machine, as painful as that can sometimes be.

I must thank you Carl, not so much for your your kind words regarding my post, but for allowing me to see life without any material goods at all in a different way.
It's true! If you buck the system until "they" turf you out into the street, how is a person meant to survive? Live on the street I suppose and beg from the passer by. That's not fair to either the begger or the passer by.
Better to tie yourself as little as possible to the "money machine" and leave as small a environmental footprint as possible.
Best of fortunes Carl and Chris :-)