Sunday, April 10, 2011

Producing with Means

After reading "Existentialism is a Humanism," something that I noticed was the argument that production isn't simply done for fun, but it has a purpose, every product that we produce has an end purpose. For some reason this idea has stayed in my mind for last couple of days and I have been trying to argue in a sense.

I was determined to find one thing that was produced without an actual purpose, and obviously not matter what I came up with, I found some purpose (whether great or small) that it could be used for. So here lies my question, have we abused the power of production?

As a society, and as a world, we seem to produce and produce and produce, and while of course we've now grown reasons to produce products, but it seems as though we are starting to produce these products with the hope of eventually having a reason for them. I know this seems like a turn around argument, but the point of it is, I don't think that we always have a purpose for a product that we produce, we rather produce it, in hopes of gaining a purpose for it.

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