So, how’s things? Pretty good? I understand it’s just so pompous to make the assumption that everyone’s killing it and is successful and is raking in the cash and rocking the job market. I understand that truly not everyone is doing all that well. But for all you people who are… ALL. YOU. PEOPLE.
Begone! Vamoose! Fuck off!
I remember a time, a seemingly forgotten time, a whole ten years ago (they call that a decade). In that golden era, there was a reaping. I felt a great disturbance, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced. In fact, they had all lost their jobs because of the housing crisis.
And you know what happened? Things got better (for me). Traffic was much lighter, restaurants were emptier, everything ran smoother. I even blogged about the employment situation at the time in an insensitive way. And in other ways, things got better for everyone else, too. (Well, everyone that escaped the wrath of Moros.)
But now, at the frenzied peak of exuberance, we stand. Have you seen the stock market? Everyone thinks it’s incredible and wonderful. I think it’s terrifying. How about that Bitcoin? Millions to be made there! Millions of what? The only thing that Bitcoin has to justify its value is scarcity. There’s plenty of scarce things in the world today. But you know what’s not scarce?
People. There’s so many, they have lost their value.
The rally cry for 2018 must be, “There is much to be done. And much of that much involves much less.”
But my point is, there’s a lot of people out there right now being productive. They’re driving to jobs and clogging up my highway. They’re eating out a hell of a lot and making me wait for a table. And they’re buying stuff and causing stock shortages and shipping delays. In order to fix everything, everything must be broken. This day is coming.
And even though there are so many people now, it is also a time of extreme self-centeredness, of greed, of narcissism, of pure Americanism. Indeed, my post is embracing it, too. We’ve been here before, maybe ten years ago, maybe a decade.
I’ll see you on the highway someday soon. Or not.
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