The Circularity of Consumption

As dozins, as human beings, we sort of fall into tasks by default. Where do we get this default set of tasks to be engaged in? Well, from other people around us who tell us how we should be behaving. Hydiger thinks there'se so many things about our modern, technology focus, consumer driven soc ies that make it easy for us to just fall into a set of tasks predetermined by how other people tell us to behave. He writes elsewheret nature becomes a gigantic gasolene station, an energy source for modern technology and industryan.