The famous scene in the movie The Graduate had some empty grinning Establishment-type guy advising the mopey kid on his postgrad future. “I just want to say one word to you. . . . Plastics.”
That said everything, didn’t it? The falseness of the consumer culture, the factories sucking in gouts of hydrocarbons through one door, pumping out Tupperware for repressed housewives through one loading dock and napalm through another. We needed to get back to the true natural basics, like glass shampoo bottles that shattered into 437 pieces when you dropped them in the shower.
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