Industrial manufacturing trained us to become consumers. Buying lots of things we once didn’t need… Or things we only needed small amounts of before mass production came about. 

Take shoes, for instance. Most people only had one or two pair before mass production. How many of us now have closets full of Nikes?

We became a society of consumers…

And now I worry that it’s carried over into our intellectual pursuits as well. All most of us do is consume, consume, consume. 

Podcasts. TikToks. Netflix originals. YouTube subscriptions. Live streaming. The amount of inputs is staggering.

But how many of us make stuff of our own? 

Have you considered starting a podcast? Creating a YouTube channel? Writing a blog? If not, why?

I think it’s because we’ve had it ingrained in us since childhood that we are meant to consume… Not create. 

We have so many inputs now that there seems almost no room for the outputs we could create. 

I suppose the only solution is to reverse it. And start making things.