We can all thank Edward Bernays for spawning this monstrosity. He is responsible for dreaming up "targeted advertising and the general shift in western culture from that of buying things we need to buying things we want (and do not need"
Since the birth of his baby, it has turned into a ceaseless, rampant greedy beast, whose appetite will never be sated.
I don't read newspapers, cancelled my TV License, feel nauseous when I'm in shopping districts, ditched the high maintenance, materialistic ex-girlfriend, don't play games anymore & I don't know what half the stuff people around me are going on about nowadays either, because I'm not plugged in to the corporate media and advertising industries.
It all feels like a last ditched free-for-all; one last ruse, to grab the very last of the sheckles before the illusion implodes; the global eco-system and the economy with it.
My T.V, which I solely use to plug my Netflix loaded laptop into, is always only one anger fit away from getting smashed to pieces with a hammer.
You said it very eloquent! And I must agree...the perversity of the system is that if you do all that you are being seen as the WEIRDO! When the whole system is the grotesque mutation....
Then, when you have stepped away from the grotesque perversion, you often find yourself alone. It's a sad state of affairs. Thank f*** for steemit!