Broken record

I don’t exactly remember how many years ago it was, that I heard for the first time the expression <<bullshit jobs>>: we all knew about them, but they still became the norm before constituting monochromatic universe. Jobs that create multiple, no ending, superfluous needs or promote fake solutions for very real problems, perpetuating the misery of consumers and workers alike, while multiplying mines of gold for investors. Those are now the only jobs that are available for the beings hungry of actual interaction (in which most of us have become in the North anyhow).

I know it’s many decades since well known philosophers started addressing mass human behavior developments in the direction of our most profound egoistic tendencies. Hedonistic individual dynamics in opposition to common efforts for general prosperity, they have long since then become measure of freedom, whatever freedom is perceived as nowadays and for whom. Never mind social sciences, the desperate will for immediate fulfillment and need of constant self-promotion (in the big picture of growing painful competition that cannot ever be ignored) have won the ideological warfare. I’m afraid that there are no more ideas on social organization even, just the general conception that our personal sensibilities should be protected at any cost in the rat race to remain sane, let alone considering, even if for the shortest amount of time, that we might be able to work for change regarding the health of the ecosystem where we desire to thrive, and therefore our own. The fast satiation of the most individual whim to consume whatever we feel untitled to is now well instilled in every life sphere to regard as ultimate goal, it is the closest we have to spiritual life. Everything else is a carnivalesque attempt to redeem ourselves from extreme materiality. At the end, it is plain exhaustive to attend all the constant attainments required to remain comfortable. Or entertained. Or shinny looking successful. 

If we could only forget about predatory learning.

 

Amy Winehouse - Rehab