Years ago, we had to work to produce necessary things. Now we have to produce superfluous junk to keep ourselves working.
welcome, parisien!
that's about the wryest, aptest summation of the human condition i've enjoyed in a while.
consumerism is simply madness writ large, the most idiotic delusion the species has ever shot itself in the foot with.
foot, magari, more like the frontal cortex!
poor humans gonna have to reboot the whole system. money was such a convenient tool/invention, but as we see now, it is the mother of all two-edged swords. if we're not mature enough to use it with extreme care, then abused, it will cut us to shreds, and it's back to barter.
slow or fast, hard or smooth, this top heavy artifice we call 'society' is going down, and in 5 years will possibly be as unrecognisable as today's would be to a caveman.
<disclaimer> feeling this way since '75! wrong then, probably wrong now, but just can't shake the gut feeling anyway.
playing the blues, playing the blues, it's the only thing that gives me faith to smile through the tears, or cry through the laughter.
oy yes, and this... ~Government budget deficits are not nearly as dangerous as the deficits we have created in vital and complex natural systems.~ Naomi Klein.
