Letters to the Editor
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@ Lola
Yours is the least snarky letter in the thread :)...I know you weren't saying 'childless people suck.' I'm a little touchy on the subject lately. :)
I do think the whole consumerism thing re: kids is a red herring. There are childless people who drive hummers and people with six kids who live in communes.... There are people with kids who have tvs in each room, a new outfit a week, and forty seven activity drop offs a month with their attendant stops for gasoline.
I am low-impact childless... I have lived on less than 10K a year for the past 15 years.
Still, I do no self-back patting because we are ALL complicit in the cycle of greed and american consumerism which is helping to destroy the world (not to mention nearly every american child's self-esteem)
Make no mistake. EVERY AMERICAN is complicit in the greed/war machine. Anyone who owns a computer and has the juice to post to Salon is definitely complicit.
The way to solve this is not by pointing fingers at other people's choice to have or not have children, but to change the system. Yours is a good idea... educate against consumerism and the low self-esteem it fosters.