The one -time world

Having visited the Russian stage of the World Cup in the Formula1 Cup, I was once again convinced - our life is becoming more and more disposable. Disposable slippers at the hotel, disposable towels in the toilet, disposable razor machines, and even disposable combs and toothbrushes in trains.

It would seem, why worry if the cost of production of any things becomes penny over time, and only ideas and inventions have value? So it is so, but not quite. Gradually, even such technologically complex and high -tech mechanisms as mobile phones and cars reduce their service life. If in the case of smartphones this is just a mod - the iPhone of the previous version is always called inferior when a new model comes to replace it in a couple of years. In cars, this is not so obvious. But their manufacturers, one way or another, also artificially reduce the resource of machines on the basis of considerations of savings and the introduction of new exhausts in the near future, when another euro is replaced by another. I'm not talking about stores selling things at a fixed price, which serve exactly as much as they have paid for them.

Either the point is in Soviet times: any technically complex unit was the subject of pride and adoration and was repaired until completely wear, bottles and banks gave a second life, and polyethylene packages that appeared in stagnation were covered and hanged like a linen to dry on a rope. Things had a completely different value and, although they were not ideal from an aesthetic point of view, delivered pleasure during the entire long service life.

At the same time, of course, the things are enduring, not necessarily material and tangible. Which a priori are expensive and the memory of which has been living for decades. Such an event was for me personally a visit to Sochi and Formula 1 race, the opportunity to see I was kindly provided by Pirelli - an exclusive supplier of 13 -inch tires for all up to one car.

By the way, the same invaluable "exclusive" are feelings - love, friendship, respect. Of course, they are not worth anything, but a priori cannot be disposable.

Moreover, the process of reducing the life of things goes, in my opinion, in parallel with the process of increasing the value of some of them, manually created, as well as real emotions and feelings. And there can be no victory over the other globally. Here, each of us should already determine for ourselves - which is more important to him, a fashionable smartphone or reliable connection, cheap fast food or home goodies, momentary network fame earned on scandals, or reputation based on a long painstaking work.

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