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Pisces'Story of Stuff' Video Creates Controversy
Not all parents are thrilled that this is being shown in classrooms.
The New York Times has called "The Story of Stuff" -- Annie Leonard's 20-minute expose on the hidden environmental and social costs of current systems of production and consumption -- a "sleeper hit in classrooms across the nation." They say: "The video is a cheerful but brutal assessment of how much Americans waste."
But the video definitely has its detractors ... including Glenn Beck. "Indoctrination? Actually, the progressives are starting much younger these days ... there is a video being played in schools all across America -- that lays out the 'story of stuff' a loving, anti-capitalist tale that unfortunately has virtually no facts correct," he states.
Some moms say the video makes kids feel bad about buying anything at all -- and stresses them out and overwhelms them. Other parents say they're glad the video gives children an honest assessment of the trouble our planet is in.
Check out the video for yourself:
Do you think this video should be shown in classrooms?
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I think this is a perfect show to let kids know how important they are in the chain of events of consumerism. This would open their eyes as to just where all their ‘stuff’ comes from and goes to when they’re done with it. Maybe we’ll raise a generation of concerned kids rather than another one of pointless shoppers and users.
This would be great in an econocs or health class.
I’m dowbnloading ot to show to my kids and students.
Excellent message for kids to see. Making a connection early between “stuff” we are enticed to buy (and the packaging it is in) and real happiness is great.
It isn’t a new message - things don’t make you happy.
I agree with some of what Annie Leonard saying about over consuming but don’t like how she uses this subject as a forum to convy her democratic message. Much of what she says is unfounded and overdramatized to take a wack at the US and our capatilistic society - the best society in the world.
It is good that Corporations dwarf the government because if government was the larger entity, then a majority of people would be on government payroll, working inefficently and producing nothing real. Who would pay the taxes to support these government workers? the people who actually are working.
It is not the government’s job to take care of the people. It is the people’s job to take care of themselves.
The government represents the people in setting and enforcing the laws of our society and provides policing to enforce those laws. They also provide military protection so that we may continue to live as a free society.
The governments job is not to take care of the people, that is the peoples job. Those who refuse to carry their own weight are who are being taken care of by the government are doing so at the expense of the productive people. Every welfare doller given away is given away at my expense because I am a tax payer.
I think the video uses the topic stuff
to hide an underlying political message
against our wonderful country.
Politics have no place in the schools
of our country. We can’t have religion
there certainly should not be politics
taught. Especially anti-American ideas
that this video promotes under the
guise of conservation
Since when did we delegate the responsibility of taking care of ourselves to the government?
We have a decent country already. But if more kids were shown this video we could live in an even better country by someday soon!
Reason# 2,043,907 to home school.
Politics in the classroom is one thing, but a video that out and out lies is quite another. She mentions that we only have 4% of our forests left, but if you go to the video’s footnotes, it is taken from someone saying that 95-98% of forests have been logged at some point, something that is entirely different. If you look at the actual forested acreage in America, it has been relatively stable for the last 100 years, the low point being in 1920.
I watched through the “tank.” Nearly *all* of our federal tax dollars should go to defense and to set our currency. The original authors of our Constitution did not envision the state as provider or arbiter of anything else, much less education, welfare, jobs and salaries.
The message s simple. Everyone must pitch in to help make our world a better place to live in. Before we judge it we must research. It’s true she made errors but everything else she said is relevant. If we distract ourselves with correcting her every mistake we lose the message.
This post seems to recieve a great deal of visitors. How do you get traffic to it? It gives a nice unique spin on things. I guess having something real or substantial to say is the most important factor.
I love the part where the government should “watch out for us and take care of us” directly after she shows she is anti-military. Nice.Way to teach kids about what an “awful” place America is.