Another re-post. This one is from this time last year. Regular readers will note that there are themes I've been sounding and threads I've been following for a while now. _______________________________________________________________________________ If you read nothing else on this blog, read my piece Boredom and the Barbarian , especially the part where I quote Erich Fromm. Fromm's vision is of two sorts of modern man. The Bored - homo consumens - those who are eternally infantile, always wanting to be passively fed, to suck forever on the Great Teat; they are never satisfied; they are depressed and self-indulgent. They neither understand nor appreciate culture or beauty, or even other people beyond the use they can put other people to. The Interested - those who are inter-esse , whose being is within and among people and things outside of themselves and their own egos. You might say that the first, the Slackers, are simply selfish,...
Godot has finally arrived - but he's a multi-level marketing salesman and you can't get him to shut up.