Commercialism will be the end of humanity.
My company moved the training department to Singapore some years ago. A couple of years ago I went out to Singapore to train on the new stuff. I had a great time while I was there, but found myself deeply disturbed by the rampant commercialism that was woven into the fabric of the city. Singapore has few wild places left because it is an island that has been developed over centuries and the land was long ago swallowed up by the city.
When people become divorced from the land we become inhuman.
Don’t get me wrong, I really enjoyed spending time with Singaporeans while I was there. The thing was that Singapore is at the frontier of complete industrialization. Looking over the edge of that cliff was frightening in that we could very easily fall off that precipice and become something different then we are now, a humanity less connected to the land and hell bent on using it up.
If we don’t re-connect to the land in our own ways through things like turkey hunting, camping, hiking and fishing we will cease to exist as we know it.
Enjoying the heck out of Korean beer, Soju and Kimchi with Hong at Red Pig, a really wonderful Korean joint in Singapore.
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