Daniel Farrell

Here in America, consumerism dominates our lives. If we are not out buying something or working to be able to buy things then we are being bombarded with messages telling us we should be. This is the world we live in. This is our reality. This reality hides from us much of the ugliness of the world… or when it shows it to us it does it in a way that makes it seem disconnected from the rest of our lives. But all of life is integrated. Our habits effect people all over the world.

I’m sure just about everyone reading this blog wants to make the world a better place. Everyone wants to end suffering. Everyone wants to love people better. We want to live a compassionate lifestyle in this global village.

This is the intro and start of a series of posts about little things we can do to live a more compassionate life. I would like to state first and foremost that I am far from living all(most really) of these ideas. This is about me brainstorming things we(our family and our community) can do rather than me telling you what you should do.

I would like to tie that in with an idea from complexity science, chaos theory. Simply stated, in a complex system a small change over time can make a huge difference. I’m not advocating we try to throw away our current culture and everything involved in it, I’m advocating we start making small changes that will, over time, make huge differences in the world.

I’m going to focus mostly on how we deal with our stuff… what we buy, eat, throw away, etc. I’ll try to post one part a week them sometime… Stay tuned.

Updates: These aren’t gonna happen. For a good site that deals with a lot of this stuff visit Tame the Monster.