The blog name comes from the fact--or irritating habit, maybe--that I continually wonder about things. My temperament is always searching for meaning, and so many things about life are absurd. I'm always running into what I call "Leaps in Logic" that amaze me.
For example, the local newspaper had an article about Whole Foods Market deciding to go no-plastic-bags soon. The primary reason given was that these pesky plastic bags escape the landfills and migrate to waterways where they cause trouble for wildlife.
Now I absolutely think protecting waterways and wildlife is vital. But what I don't get is the leap in logic that makes the plastic bag the perpetrator. Sorry, but they don't willfully "escape" the landfill. And if they do transit from landfill to waterway, it's because PEOPLE threw them away instead of recycling them. PEOPLE ARE AT FAULT, not the bags.
So, to me, changing the human behavior is a better solution than changing the bagging material. But then, doing that's impossible, maybe, and it doesn't make the company look good in one easy news release--or sell their reusable bags.
Hm. Am I too cynical?
