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On the toxic nature of an abundance

Colin Campbell
by Colin Campbell on 19/01/20 18:00

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That small part of my brain that promotes addiction and houses my addictive personality component has centred mostly on chocolate and carbohydrates these days.

It has been centred around other things and might be centred on other things in the future, but when I press the trigger (usually stress or distress) I turn back to carbohydrate and in particular… chocolate.

I can eat 200g of Dairy Milk in 5 minutes without looking and without tasting and without thinking, for a tiny short hit and then a long while of self-disgust.

I perhaps centred on this because of the abundance of that material.

Every time I walk into a shop it is presented in front of me, everywhere I look, it is available, pretty much 23 hours a day.

It is not the worst thing to be addicted to, but it is not great for me and how would you stop when it is hard to go a day without walking past somewhere when it is right in front of you (I usually have enough money to buy a bar of Dairy Milk).

The difficulty is that we crave abundance and abundance will be our downfall.

I lived in a world where you had 24 or 32 photographs on a camera and you had to wait until they came back from boots to check whether the photographs where any good, for a whole holiday, you would be restricted to 48 photographs.

The problem now is that, it’s not that we don’t have enough photographs, it is that we cannot choose which photographs to look at because we are swallowed up by the abundance of photography.

It is 2 for 1 on Photo Books and you can’t decide which photos to put in the book.

We are paralysed by choice.

I lived in a world where you had to wait week on week for your television programme to come out and if you missed the start of the slot, you missed the show.

Nowadays people just binge as the next episode starts in 5 seconds.

Success for many people has been the opportunity of sitting on a settee with Dairy Milk, wine and Netflix, achieving a level of abundance unknown 10 or 15 years ago.

So we work harder (abundance of work) to get more money (abundance of money) to fill our lives with more stuff (abundance of consumerism).

There is no peace in that and there is no joy, not real joy.

Joy is in quiet, joy is in patience and joy is actually over the other side of boredom.

I have been staggered by my recent reading and investigation into the amount of time that we’re using on screens and social media and mobile phones.

I thought it was bad, but I didn’t realise the results of the studies now exist, showing that 95% of adults charge their phone by their bed side and a huge percentage of people have a blue screen in the hour before bed and 50% say they don’t sleep properly.

Abundance is killing us, individually and collectively and on a planetary level and for what? Certainly not for joy.

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Colin Campbell
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