America faced with one choice: Thrift

Sometimes we change because we want to...but sometimes we change because we have no choice, and since this violates our manifest destiny to do as we please, it may take a while before we notice that those are often the changes we need to make most. - Time.com

SHOOT: When you have one choice you really have no choice, and this is a shift that is not only hard to swallow, but has emotional consequences (for the masses). I find those realities (mass discontent for a large, lazy population used to getting drive-thru Burgers and flipping the channel to Idols) both compelling and troubling. It is difficult to imagine a mostly obese group of people transitioning to discipline either quickly or easily.

clipped from www.time.com Sometimes we change because we want to: lose weight, go vegan, find God, get sober. But sometimes we change because we have no choice, and since this violates our manifest destiny to do as we please, it may take a while before we notice that those are often the changes we need to make most. We ran a good long road test of the premise that more is better: we built houses that could hold all our stuff but were too big to heat; we bought cars that could ferry a soccer team but were too big to park; we thought we were embracing the simple life by squeezing in a yoga class between working and shopping and took an extra job to pay for it all. Now we're stripping down and starting over.