the world doesn’t change very fast

The counterculturalists of our generation said we were not going to tolerate the crass commercialism.

But it’s worse than ever. The internet phenomenon has made it worse than ever. Move the mouse on the screen and up pops a business clamoring for attention.

The continuing, continual noisy, obnoxious clamor for recognition, for publicity.

The reason you don’t think it’s all so bad is because it’s so present in our modern reality that we get inured to it. But the truth is that it’s annoying. It’s boorish, it’s immature. We ought to be embarrassed.

It’s stupid. The infinity of atomized business entities clamoring and clamoring. All the people behind the entities … the vaunted “entrepreneurs” … striving and striving; striving for business, striving to sell you something, striving for profit, for enrichment. Making noise, disturbing the peace.

Still.

We said we were not going to be that way. We said we were not going to put up with it.

But the world doesn’t change very fast.