The bomb: it creates jobs
The economy is what keeps us stupid and enslaved.
A “good” economy sells lots of stuff to lots of people.
A “good” economy employs lots of people.
So a “good” economy means
1. Work
and 2. Stuff
Work and stuff.
These two things are precisely what makes most of us miserable.
You see the problem, here?
Fear not; this is not a Marxist critique—this is not another whiny complaint about “capitalism,” whatever that it is—we refer simply to “the economy,” buying and selling, working and producing: it impacts all of us and determines our fate to a very large extent, and we all know what it is; no college degree claptrap needed here.
The more stuff that is made and sold, the more work that is done, the better the economy is, and what does this mean? That more people are actively miserable—waking up early to go to horrible jobs, which in turn employs more people, causing even more misery, as misery contributes to misery.
The “good” economy, which naturally traffics in the plentiful, makes all kinds of stuff available to us: packaged, copyrighted, detailed, complex, addicting, minute, crass, advertised, wasteful, useless, to some degree or other, which breeds more jobs, making more stuff, to expand and deal with all the stuff and choices which are endlessly expanding for the sake of the “good” economy.
The “good” economy has its own reason for existing. The very thing which makes us miserable, the “good” economy, is the measure of human happiness. Everything else is private and intangible, but the economy impacts everything nonetheless.
It is all that matters to us as human beings (who do not live on a desert island), for the alternative, the “bad” economy, equals unemployment, starvation, ignorance, third-world dictatorship, torture, disease, and death.
There is no escape from this.
The choice is either Stuff or Death.
The choice is either Dumbest Job In The World or Freezing Torture Prison.
Even the “dignified” professions are corrupt in order to make the economy “good.”
Medicine pursues patients for unnecessary “cures.”
Universities recruit illiterates to “educate.”
The Law extorts.
Banking manipulates.
Government wastes.
Restaurants diminish.
Construction bullies.
Politics divides.
Engineers sue.
Scientists politicize.
The military razes.
Art socializes.
Morals decay.
Journalism obeys.
The “good” economy, in order to expand, must get rid of the old, because whatever is old interferes with the “good” economy.
“Progressives” who attack capitalism (the good economy) are well-meaning dupes who add to the folly even more than others, since their “out-with-the-old” solutions only make things worse; many look to progressives to solve the problem—which they only exacerbate. The “simple life” which progressives push is merely a sub-industry which would not exist without the larger one.
Because the old gets in the way, the “good” economy needs not only to corrupt, but destroy.
What was the greatest boost to “the economy” in history?
World War Two.
Is the dilemma now clear?
You are not crazy.
Human society is crazy.
It’s the economy, stupid.
