But stock-market capitalism is today's coin of the realm, consumerism its handmaiden, and technology is the great enabler. You think technology benefits you because it gives you an easier row to hoe? Bollocks. The ease it provides is illusory. It has trapped you, made you a slave to things you don't even need but suddenly can't live without. So you rot in a cubicle trying to get the money to get the stuff, when you should be out walking in a meadow or wooing a lover or writing a song.

Jollarian recommends a Holiday in Cambodia for this gentleman, as well as anyone who recommends this link. Really. They help. Nothing like... well, very little or nothing material, to clear the mind. Nothing like... Amoebic Dysentary to... clear the bowels.

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