Beyond Religion
Why do some products have that difficult plastic
casing!? You bring home your latest gadget from
the store. Upon taking it out of the bag, you have
to wrestle with multiple layers of steel-like plastic
to be able to even touch your new product. You
try ripping the plastic with your hands, but you
quickly lose that battle. Scissors help, but they
require a certain angle of slice and dance with
your wrists. After several minutes of frustration,
you are finally granted access to something that
is often one-fourth or even one-eighth the size of
the original packaging.
Phew.
But despite your battles with this type of
packaging, do they ever prevent you from buying
the next thingamajig or doohickey? Of course
not. It’s just packaging. If the product is desirable
enough, you’re going to buy it and open it no
matter what.
Imagine a world without packaging, a world in
which things, people and ideas were presented
in the way that they truly were. No pretense. No
plastic. What if we could just get what we needed
without that exterior plastic casing?