Final Assignment Blog #1

In first choosing which topic I wanted to tackle, I thought about the social implications that I am more familiar with and would be better able to describe. Choosing Made to Break was an easy choice for me as I am very familiar with the disposable society that surrounds us. For instance, in my town there is a very stupid rule that a household is not allowed to have a clothes line in their backyard since it is not aesthetically pleasing to the eye. Having a clothes line though, would save so much money on the strained energy bill that many families have trouble coping with. Rarely does my family wait for the laundry baket to be filled up to the brim befoe we turn on a the washing machine and consequently the dryer. If we were to have a clothes line, we would save plenty in electricity. This type of narrow thinking is not limited to municipalities of small New Jersey towns. Producers and consumers alike are conditioned to dispose of their products when before they have been fully worn and torn. People love to stay on top of the latest trends and technology actually makes it that much easier to do this. With the advent of the internet, everyone knows the latest trends and fashions. Websites like twitter, for instance, can inform one how cool the new iPhone is and how much better is even though this may not be the case. Someone very impressionable like a child as a result, can beg their parents to get them the new phone, and the parents are forced to toss the old one before its lifespan has been completed.