“A corporation is a ‘creature of the law,’ said Chief Justice Marshall in 1819,” Derrick Jensen writes in The Culture of Make Believe.  “When a government charters a corporation, it is setting in motion, according to Marshall, ‘a perpetual succession of individuals [who] are capable of acting for the promotion of the particular object, like one immortal being...’  Since corporations are ‘immortal,’ and since they are created solely to amass wealth, they become the institutionalization of dissatisfaction, the economic manifestation of the Buddhist notion of ‘hungry ghosts,’ spirits who roam the earth, always eating, never sated. 

“The forest activist Jim Britell commented on this, and his statement applies not only to the timber industry executives he describes but to the (American) culture as a whole.  ‘In the writings and speeches of clear-cutters and deforesters, you can see and hear an intense hunger to find forests to cut.  At the same time, the last few years have broken all records in the amount of forests cut down.  What we are seeing is a simultaneity of poverty and richness, a special kind of insatiable hunger where the more you possess the more deprived you feel.  This is the emotion that dominates and pervades the realm of the hungry ghosts.  The physical representation of this state is the image of a being with a gigantic belly, a very thin neck and a tiny mouth.  No matter how much the hungry ghosts eats, its stomach can be be filled.’

“What this means is that corporations and those who run them cannot stop exploiting resources and amassing wealth until they have....I cannot finish this sentence, because the truth is that they can never stop; like cancer, they can only continue to expand until they kill their host.”

Is Our Company Mission Futile?

Our company mission to protect, preserve, and expand, wilderness, is it futile?  Are we just deluding ourselves that we can through our Packit Toilet kit actually succeed in getting people to stop pooping on the ground and leaving it there for ‘nature’ to deal with?  Can we convince people to take responsibility for their own poop - while using these remaining wilderness areas?  Time will tell.  So far, we’ve not sold a single toilet kit.  We’re told that it may take a year or more for this site to have the necessary reach to people who use wilderness and backcountry to actually begin selling some toilet kits.  Can we stay the course?  Again, time will tell.  But so far, we have spent a lot of time and thought and money and energy trying to do develop a product we believe could be an important means of preserving the remaining wild places and the wild things that inhabit them - plus a unique and informative website - with zero effect.  Strange times.