Clothing can be chiefly linked to the extreme levels of poverty and widening inequality gap experienced in the world today. What we consider the norm didn't exist before, but ever since sweatshops replaced the textile farmers, relegating them to cash crop farming, heavy fertilizer and pesticide use. People relied on plants like flax, hemp, cotton etc for clothing
Before we begin, here's a little history for perspective from odd compass channel (no relation)
A lot of the things we waste money on are trickled down indoctrination of colonization wr are better off unlearning. But where do we run to for education, when even education have been altered.
Here what the Sadhguru has to say about clothing and Indian's future and why they must reignite their textile industry and stand their ground to end today's farmer's suicide.
Today's farmer's suicide, seeing what the British systematically did to India and to the world at large.
The logical thing being simply to begin boycotting English wears and buy African attire focusing majorly on plant based materials, sustainable, ensuring the crippling of clothing hegemonies, Bringing back that natural farmer to weaver relationship lost in today's industrialization, seeing that clothes is the second cause of pollution in the world with Pakistan topping that list by painting their rivers blue with the dye used in making jeans.
Which clothes do you now chose to put on?
I have chosen plant fibre cotton clothing the one we refer to as Teru as my way of boycotting these last strands of colonization, funny enough they are cheap and aerate one better, I mostly stay indoor really and don't go anywhere
Ever since people stop farming textile materials farmer's started over farming as they weren't making as much as they should farming knly crops which unlike fibre plants were perishable and location based. If the world wanted to curb this farmer's suicide it should start with wearing fibre and plant made clothing
The world watch while England decimated India and destroyed it's textile factory to make way for it's own clothing, I have met this world and frankly there's no place worth wearing anything besides fibre clothing or worth spending on clothing for.
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