Just can't seem to shake the image

Recently, someone was speaking of their trip to Vegas and how lifeless the individuals seemed as they sat at the "slot machine". No emotions, automatic in their movements, "It was like the life was being sucked out of them" was the description he gave. When I step back and see all the other arenas where we seem to be "feeding" an endless pit and how this act seems to be a fabric of our society, I quiver. What business, industry, organization is not asking us to feed them? It is not the same role we are placing Mother Earth in? Constantly pulling, taking, consuming from her without asking for any interaction, feeling, or an exchange of any kind. Is it not time to help her to step back, catch her breath and be honored?