Panem et circenses — bread and circuses — that’s what kind of world we live in today.
Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, Apple, Amazon, Google, Alibaba, Tencent, and all the rest of the social/consumer apps and companies dedicated to feeding and filling the populace with useless, nutritionally empty, profoundly vacant nonsense — we deserve such inane creations.
We have returned to an era of bread and circuses.
While the planet’s ecosystems literally melt, burn, boil and die, we get fed a constant stream of vapid, utterly empty crap. CRAP! A billion+ humans creating media crap everyday to feed to each other, hoping their crap is better than his crap, than her drivel, than their banal, vomitous effluent.
That is our legacy. That is our heritage. Instead of lifting humanity into the transcendent elevations of kindness, forbearance, forgiveness and understanding we voted in a cadre of capitalistic masters. Today’s “corporations” gorge themselves on the monetary leakage of humanity’s insipid predilection for self-indulgence.
We deserve what we get. Which, in the end, will be destruction.
*** Peanuts, popcorn $15.00 a bag. Bagels $10. There’s an app for that! ***
August 18th, 2018 at 8:37 am
If I have one mission in my blog it is to provide as much “banal, vomitous effluent” as possible to the masses during this trying time. How am I doing?
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August 18th, 2018 at 12:27 pm
Top notch (bottom rung) I’d say. “Spew as you see fit,” the captain bellowed over the rising seas.
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August 8th, 2018 at 7:55 pm
Well said.
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