Your observations are absolutely spot on. People do not value their own time or believe in the day to day moments of life there is any value. They must be OCCUPIED with something. No quiet minds. People as they age tend to see more value in their own time (there’s less of it and it’s obvious) but letting large corporations literally OWN your time and attention is a mistake.

This is true in the news business too. We are consumed by triviality. We goose our pleasure centers with the most salacious, most pointless, most provocative items and publishers and advertisers know it, feeding off of it like the massive parasites many have become. The rising tide of the mindfulness movement as encouraging as it is, is a ripple compared to the tsunami of commercially driven crap washing away our lives into the vast BUYMORE sea.