“If there was a problem, yo, I’ll solve it”
-Vanilla Ice
They don’t make them like they used to…
Technically, you ain’t wrong neither.
It’s true, they don’t make things like they used to, and there’s a reason for it too.
It’s technically our fault.
We became children of instant gratification and combined with our lack of “free” time, we allowed the corporations to dictate the terms of engagement.
They don’t have to make anything with quality anymore. We pre-buy games and sign away the rights to the stuff we buy through “agreements”.
What foking incentive are we giving companies to put out a good product when we are literally trampling over the corpses of human beings to upgrade a TV on black Friday?
It is not going to fill in that existential void, Karen.
Imagine what is doing to us at a psychological level? Is there a chance that maybe that disposable culture has bled into our social behaviors and that’s why relationships and connections have also become easier to throw away than to maintain and repair?
I’m just saying.
What can be done?
Embrace what we have always been. Hackers.
Seriously, it isn’t all about code either. Taking stuff apart and tinkering with it so it does something else or works to our liking is fundamental to being alive. Am I over reaching if I say hacking is the result of consciousness adapting to the environment faster than the cadavatar it is trapped in? It’s like, “Hey man, I’ve mastered the use of this meat-bot, now I will begin to dominate my surroundings”… We see an ape creating tools in their environment and we call it a sign of intelligence, but then judge a person for trying to do the same in theirs?
Double foking standard.
#HackNotCrime
I should be able to fix the stuff I own. It’s mine, and I should have all the rights to it.
Why the hell should I be charged for an owners manual? I’m already the foking owner.
Let tinkerers tinker. If the Wright brothers had stuck to bicycles we wouldn’t have Space X right now. Let the environment heal by not creating more waste. Let jobs develop in a fixing economy that can help us save desperately needed resources.
All that by supporting local #RightToRepair groups and letting your state reps know about it. Yes, that’s right, as you sit in the toilet reading this, you can click the links provided and help the cause for #RightToRepair. In the comfort of your throne, you are saving farmers in rural areas from corporations like John Deere that have exclusive rights to repair their equipment and charge as they see fit.
It is that easy.
#LazyRevolution