Melbourne shiny and new

Sometimes the big cities do my head in. Wandering around Melbourne CBD before my meeting yesterday I had a gentle panic attack about humanity, consumption, brainwashing. " Oh how humanity is a fucked up consumption machine fixated on superficial beauty and throw away goods", that sort of thing. I had to buy a few things - a trolley suitcase, a pair of stockings. But it was ridiculously hard to find a quality item that would not break in 5 minutes. Case in point - the first pair of stockings had runs in them as I brought them out the packet, the second pair I exchange them for had a ladder within an hour. Throwaway, disposable culture. It makes my heart break for the wasting of the planet.