Excesses and Explosive Parallels

As a committed consumer (and I guess supreme patriot as a result according to the sitting US president), I am reflecting today on the amazing amount of excess in my and my culture's exisitence. And I wonder if I can do anything about it besides write in a blog about it.

How many t-shirts, how many CDs, how many MP3 and MP4 files, how many email, how many text messages, how many social networking sites, how many minimalized converstations, how many times to ignore my place in the world, just how many can this world sustain?

As human beings with our bodies, we try to excise cancers when they explosively grow ~ with pernicious and toxic attempts that are sometimes worse than the cancer itself with the same end result. If a culture explodes, consumes, damages and has no control overitself so that it does not destroy the host, one or the other goes. The cancer either burns itself out, or the body shuts down.

Explosive parallels that end catastrophically ~ and I'm not sure how much impact we can have on either. Does each cancer cell know what it is doing in the grand scheme of things? What can the individual cancer cell do? How can the cancer cell become a part of a unified and healthy whole without rampaging on it's collective distruction?

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Not exactly what I thought my next blog would be, but that's the way it goes.