As a 'compensation' for being in the slogging away all hours / paying over the odds on rent or mortgaged up to the hilt trap, the bastards spend a lot of energy effectively bribing us with distractions and amusements to try and keep us in their loop. As the above graphics make abundantly clear, while you may be on the treadmill, they'll do their level best to make it feel not just normal but 'desirable'. The all embracing metaverse we've been 'promised' is the next step in keeping people plugged in and compliant. That's if we let them...
I would caution there is no utopia. I did abandon city life 5 years ago, and my remote work hours are down to 10 hours a week. The area where I live is beautiful with trout streams and bears. My problem is loneliness, the people out here are dull! All they want to talk about are their trucks, and getting drunk or high. I have no friends other than people I know online. I have no talked to anyone other than a store clerk for months. Also the downside of “tight community” is they are intolerant and narrow minded. I am harshly judged for not mowing my acre of land. Fuck em’ I like the birds and bees that benefit from that better than these chuds. I suppose there may be some utopian off the grid community in California or Vermont, but land is prohibitively expensive there, and woke is everywhere.
I would caution there is no utopia. I did abandon city life 5 years ago, and my remote work hours are down to 10 hours a week. The area where I live is beautiful with trout streams and bears. My problem is loneliness, the people out here are dull! All they want to talk about are their trucks, and getting drunk or high. I have no friends other than people I know online. I have no talked to anyone other than a store clerk for months. Also the downside of “tight community” is they are intolerant and narrow minded. I am harshly judged for not mowing my acre of land. Fuck em’ I like the birds and bees that benefit from that better than these chuds. I suppose there may be some utopian off the grid community in California or Vermont, but land is prohibitively expensive there, and woke is everywhere.
Good article.
I just read another new 'stack post that matches up nicely with yours.
https://open.substack.com/pub/thefreethinker/p/why-the-narrative-refuses-to-die?r=1ih90&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web