Sign of the times

Without an ‘exchange value’ we are left with just the form of this object - it’s essence. Do we look at it just to estimate the value of its parts for salvage? Afterall, the motor industry aren’t bothering to recycle these parts, even though the thermo-plastic used in the moulding is perfectly re-useable. It is a sign of the times perhaps - a memorial of the industrial age, or rather it’s slow-reaction to climate change. If the doom and gloom merchants turn out to be right maybe one day in the future, when the earth has regenerated itself after our extinction, this object will be discovered once more by the next round of evolutionary formation, as a fossilised impression of a by-gone world. They’d perhaps wonder why there were these crazy beings with plastic bones and metal veins and think “these beings were robots, totally removed from organic life!. They created the circumstances for their own demise by stripping the planet of its resources to reproduce themselves in one almighty ironic spasm!” … Perhaps not, but perhaps this little light is an indication of value in the equation of the world economy.