a reply to:
ChaoticOrder
Excellent rant.
Society at-large has now been convinced to throw-away their thoughtful elders, and their wise folks of all ages.
They are holding-up the march to progress.
How can the world 'solve' the Climate-Crisis™, if the old-folks are dragging their feet ?
Everything is a ' Project™ ' now, and they always, constantly, need to be moving forward.
The endless battle of enthusiasm, against the supposed ' reality ' of entropy.
We try to keep doing things, as if that will push-back our inevitable death.
My view is that it relates to the OP, in the sense that it was these soulless corporate ideas of constant progression, that has become a mind-set of
the mass of society.
How else could we have armies of unthinking individuals operating the machines, pushing the buttons, and doing all of the paperwork ?
Doug Stanhope did a bit on how a clerk might lose their mind, doing endless filing day-in and day-out, but then they got a new prescription of an
anti-depressant, and they can just get-though their day on cruise-control now, because their bothersome active mind is now in a stupor.
There's no place for thought, questioning, debate, second opinions.
Just take our Medz™, and follow the good Shepherd™ out to pasture.
He protects us from the Big-Bad-Wolf™.
Sure he shaves our wool off, but it's a small price to pay for his Protection™ !