Capitalism Is Obsolete: Yes, You Can Save Your Kids From Facebook

No matter what the internet might tell you otherwise.

There is a catch naturally. To save your children. To save your communities. To save your own sense of intrinsic value. To do all of these things will require changing the current economic dynamic. You know, the one that has left us a dying planet, and a new universe of crazy in our public life.

To do the things just mentioned, you will have to scrap that old economic system. You really need to do that anyway, considering how much things have changed. And it really comes around to recognizing that, at some point in profound changes in our ability to do, and to know more, that we have to rethink not only what work is, but what it is we should be working for, or perhaps more basicly, towards. And this is where having meaning, and meaningful purpose comes into play. This is also where you have to include discussing what should now be part of the relationship between the rights, and responsibilities, of the one, or the minority, and the rights, and responsibilities, of the many, or the majority.

Talking about these sorts of things is what adults do when they realize that things just aren't working out like they should anymore. And that is why America really needs to stop and have a sit down with itself, and talk out what ought to be both practical, and humanistic, priorities. You can't do that, however, if most of you are still so caught up in doing "Business as Usual." And I mean stop all of it.

Stop working (with certain exceptions of course). Stop posting. Stop streaming. Stop gaming. Stop taking selfies. Stop shopping (except for food certainly). Stop doing anything but taking a week off and trying to get with your neighbors and think about how we could all own and operate our separate communities; sharing the work; sharing the responsibilities of managing it. Sharing the responsibilities of taking the time to understand the things you need to understand so that you can participate in more aspects of its operation. Etc.

Then you would also want to talk about what are we working for, besides our own communities. We want to preserve our nation's unity in some form because we are Americans, even if bunches of us rub other bunches the wrong way on a very regular basis. And also, naturally, because we value the strength there can be in deep cooperation, and coordination. The leverages of effort to be had there to the benefit of one, and all. And so what should our nation be working for, in combination with helping to fix what ails this nation? Should there be larger goals? We are, after all, as an assemblage of nations, supposed to be good stewards of this fragile ecosystem we live on. Do we not have responsibility towards that as well; especially if we understand the idea of "Enlightened Self interest?"

This is what adults would do. But "Business As Usual" does not want you to live as an adult. This is no longer the age where we ask the question "Growing Up Absurd?" but instead turn it, quite pathologically, to the notion of "The Absurdity of Growing Up." Because child like is exactly the right form of impulse buyer the "commoditize everything" system just loves, quite literally, to death. And here we are, with a selection of addictions, and distractions, like no age has ever produced before. And now we can take the planet over the edge; enjoying the ride all the way, in total buzzed out, glorious electro spectacular splendor.