fishingboatproceeds:I actually think we believe this as a culture. (Tom is a great character—by far
fishingboatproceeds:I actually think we believe this as a culture. (Tom is a great character—by far the best on the show in my opinion—because he is so representatively American, simultaneously obsessed with entrepreneurialism and romantic love and leisure.)Anyway I am fascinated with our intense nonrational relationship to consumer goods. Like, I almost cried recently when a 15-year-old plastic spatula broke. Sarah had that spatula before we even started dating. We’d used that spatula the first time we cooked together! That spatula was supposed to last forever but then it abandoned us.And that, I’m afraid, is the true way of things, Tom. Like us, they are here for only a little while. Unlike us, when they stop working we cannot bequeath them to the dirt to help grow the grass we love or whatever. And there’s the rub. -- source link