CARDBOARD MANIFESTO
NO MORE COMPONENTS PLEASE!
Ben Maddox tells us why we should give up on the plastic and embrace the humble cube
Words by Ben Maddox
It’s a dangerous proclivity. It’s a proclivity bordering on a habit. It’s a habit bordering on a dependency. It’s a dependency bordering on a catastrophic addiction. An addiction that will consume us all in fire. An addiction that will drown us all in the sea. Stuff. Modern day economics seeks to atomise us. That way purveyors of useless tat can leverage our despair into fooling us that the way to solve our problems is to fill every available space in our homes with stuff. Not things that carry utilitarian or sentimental value but stuff. Stuff that will moulder away at the bottom of a drawer.