Dumpster Diving
"My Daily Dives in the Dumpster"
Lars Eighner is a very resourceful and intelligent man who recounts his 5-year experience as a homeless man drifting between Austin and Hollywood in "My Daily Dives in the Dumpster". He decides the American consumer life is more comfortable than the life of a scavenger. "Although, if I could I would naturally prefer to live the comfortable consumer life, perhaps-- and only perhaps-- as a slightly less wasteful consumer owing to what I have learned as a scavenger.", the author states. The American economic system is disproportionate and flawed, but Eighner does not complain about his homeless life. He enjoyed the pursuit as a scavenger and viewed it as a form of self-reliance that is lost in modern day America.
Eighner speaks about how he reuses what others refuse when dumpster diving. "I like the frankness of the word scavenging. I live from the refuse of others." When it comes to obtaining items of value and "immediate utility" Eighner compares himself to the very wealthy. "I find that my desire to grab for the gaudy bauble has been largely sated, I think this is an attitude I share with the very wealthy-- we both know there is plenty more where that came from. Between us are the rat-race millions who have confounded their selves with the objects they grasp and who nightly scavenge the cable channels looking for they know not what." This paragraph was exceptional at pointing out Eighner's view on America. He speaks of the rich, the poor, and rat-race of millions who know not what they desire but continue to grasp for items of no use or meaning to them. The author believes we should take what we can use and let the rest go. We must restrict ourselves to items of "immediate utility" or trade value. He also supposes that "ideas are longer-lived than material objects."
I agree with the author, Lars Eighner. The American economic system is disproportionate and flawed even Dumpster diving in affluent
Lars Eighner is a very resourceful and intelligent man who recounts his 5-year experience as a homeless man drifting between Austin and Hollywood in "My Daily Dives in the Dumpster". He decides the American consumer life is more comfortable than the life of a scavenger. "Although, if I could I would naturally prefer to live the comfortable consumer life, perhaps-- and only perhaps-- as a slightly less wasteful consumer owing to what I have learned as a scavenger.", the author states. The American economic system is disproportionate and flawed, but Eighner does not complain about his homeless life. He enjoyed the pursuit as a scavenger and viewed it as a form of self-reliance that is lost in modern day America.
Eighner speaks about how he reuses what others refuse when dumpster diving. "I like the frankness of the word scavenging. I live from the refuse of others." When it comes to obtaining items of value and "immediate utility" Eighner compares himself to the very wealthy. "I find that my desire to grab for the gaudy bauble has been largely sated, I think this is an attitude I share with the very wealthy-- we both know there is plenty more where that came from. Between us are the rat-race millions who have confounded their selves with the objects they grasp and who nightly scavenge the cable channels looking for they know not what." This paragraph was exceptional at pointing out Eighner's view on America. He speaks of the rich, the poor, and rat-race of millions who know not what they desire but continue to grasp for items of no use or meaning to them. The author believes we should take what we can use and let the rest go. We must restrict ourselves to items of "immediate utility" or trade value. He also supposes that "ideas are longer-lived than material objects."
I agree with the author, Lars Eighner. The American economic system is disproportionate and flawed even Dumpster diving in affluent