Hubris.One word that sums up what might be wrong with humanity. Excessive pride makes us believe we are better than what we are. Worse, we think we know what we want and we actually set out to find it.
And then there are those who actually try to deliver the next big thing, which is nothing more than a new product with a 90% probability of failing and falling flat on its face.
But what we have really become is a world gone mad. The media hates normal people and the same media waxes analytical over the most mundane detail. And people actually believe it. And call it entertainment.
Globalisation doesn't make us any wiser even though we might have become more efficient.
We are nothing more than the global village idiots, the easily bored and the dullards with poor taste. Modernity is a demon and it is also a void.
As stark and dark as the modern condition is described here, Steve McKevitt's Why The World Is Full Of Useless Things is actually one very funny book. That sort of book that is short and snappy enough to be read in one afternoon. That sort that makes you giggle.
It is irreverent and it takes pot shots at life as we know it, although seen through a grouchy pair of eyes (McKevitt claims to be not grumpy, but just stating the truth).
McKevitt, by the way, is a consultant and he writes columns in newspapers. As far as I am aware, he is based in the UK.
And he is one of those with a shape-shifting occupation, of the variety that is difficult to explain and pinpoint. I know a chef cooks and an astronaut goes to space, but I never quite know what a consultant does.
But it is most probably something more than useless.
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