Of Two Minds

We seem to have entered a world of anti-leisure and anti-productivity in which the unpaid “shadow work” demanded to keep all the complicated digital bits in motion obliterate our leisure and productivity.

Maybe we should rephrase the slogan to “you’ll appear to own things you don’t actually control and be happy.”

So where does this leave us? We’re on our own.

As a result, a significant percentage of households that are considered middle-class are one misfortune away from insolvency.

The net result is America’s working class is up against the wall, maxed out.

Once we’ve made “digital visibility” the primary source of our identity, status and self-respect, we’ve doomed ourselves to wandering, compass-less, in a vast artificial wasteland.