how weapons-grade boredom and neglect are eating us alive

According to our late stage capitalist overlords, our purpose in life since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution has been to produce, consume, sleep, and repeat. A sort of enlightened feudalism with wi-fi, sanitation, and periodic streaming show binges. But since the middle of the last century, many of us realized that we desperately do not want this aimless life as cogs in a pointless machine driven by hubris and delusion.

The system’s response? Push us harder. Keep us busier. Demand we consume more, ask for less, and imagine a grander purpose where there is none, much to our rapidly growing rage and disgust, especially after the pandemic. And all this frustration and boredom boiling over may be why so many of us are plunging into absurd conspiracy theories and falling for more and more scammers, conmen, and fabulists.