It started happening a couple weeks ago. Me; my brilliant, beloved friends; and almost everyone I know was feeling insecure and old. Upon noticing the trend I began to grasp and struggle for answers. Personally, I can always come up with a laundry list of shortcomings for my individual despair. But, when it is happening to everyone else, there must be some undiscovered reason. I would like to humbly offer an explanation.
Why has everyone been feeling helpless, old, and inadequate? Was it the election? The muddy trudge from late 20’s to early 30’s? Perhaps negative energy waves produced from Dick Cheney’s secret bunker? Though popular choices, I believe that it is the new packaging of an old foe that has caused our collective depression. The answer is advertising. Internet advertising has finally advanced beyond it’s relative infancy. The days of avoiding all pop-ups and stealing ad-free entertainment are gone for me and the rest of the masses. I once could watch hours of music videos without ever being reminded that I don’t have the cash to afford the latest whatever. Don Draper never mentions the mirror image message behind the pitch. Every ad is a variation on a common theme. You’re fat. You’re poor. You’re lost. And the only thing that can free you from this prison of personal inadequacy is the next product… and the next… and the next.
The good people of this world need to get smarter and more elusive. We have had a glimpse of the intellectual paradise of infinite information without the attached message of infinite guilt. All blessed internet cowboys must become quicker on the trigger. We must remember that nearly every advertisement is a dark cloud over our third eye. We already pay 30-80 dollars a month for the information superhighway. No need to pay with precious attention from our consciousness. Don’t listen to this bigger, stronger, faster bullshit. We are already stronger than we will ever know.
The Dave Good Show 
“Bullshit makes the flowers grow, and that’s beautiful.”
Without waste there would be no recycling. Without mindless consumerism, there would be no community activism.
Combining our over-commercialism with our personal spiritual-social ideologies, creates new wonders larger than both components.
The hero and villain always meet in alchemical transformation, their scenarios are the catalyst for change.
ever progressing,
shane