Yikes!

Yikes!™ is a reoccurring feature in which the bleeding heart liberal of an author will pick something in society that scares him, and with the use of too many words, and a few run on sentences, try and convince you to live in fear as well.

“Post-Everything”

Everywhere I turn, somebody seems to be lamenting the loss of something. This era in society is post-everything. Almost everything that we could culturally rely on in the 20th century has given way. Every time I look at the news I read about how a certain group is poorer than ever, or TV ratings are lower than ever, or music sales are lower than ever, newspaper sales lower than ever, or how one day, first run films will be released on the internet, same day as they are in the theater.

In an era of increasing mechanization, reliance on computers, and digital technology, we’re marching boldly on, straight and true, towards what? A nation of zombiehood? Yikes!

The planet is choking and sinking as the result of our relentless and myopic plundering of natural resources. The current presidential administration in America has alienated the world and plunged us into a seemingly unending war the cost of which is great in human lives and national morale. There is no end in sight.

In this post industrial society, jobs that people once made a decent living by have disappeared, factories have closed, machines taken over, outsourcing occurred, and the largely urban public pushed aside in the great capitalistic march towards “progress.” All by a profit obsessed society that doesn’t need it anymore.

But what are we progressing towards, and in whose best interest?

Posted by Hannibal
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