"All Americans, regardless of caste, live in a culture woven of self-referential illusions. Like a holographic simulation, each part refers exclusively back to the whole, and the whole refers exclusively back to the parts. All else is excluded by this simulated reality, a simulated republic of eagles and big box stores, a good place to live so long as we never stray outside the hologram."
"The corporate simulacrum of life has penetrated us so deeply it now dominates the mind’s interior landscape with its celebrities and commercial images. Within the hologram sparkles the culture-generating industry, spinning out our unreality like cotton candy." -- Joe Bageant
#modernlife #society #culture #reality #fakenews #media #capitalism #latestagecapitalism
A healthy #economy does _not_ depend on buying up an avalanche of crap and working in pointless #jobs to be able to afford it.
It depends on people being genuinely #productive and #economical.
It also depends on a healthy #planet to feed us, and on #social #systems not based on #theft so that we don’t have to run just to stay in one place, while others fatten themselves at our expense.
#capitalism #latestagecapitalism #consumerism #consumption #wakeup
A good #medical care need not be based on an overly #hightech, top-heavy, impersonal model. Dare to #imagine. 
#healthcare #economy #capitalism #community
Let the uglification of big box stores mercifully fall into the understory of #history.
#capitalism #consumerism #society