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The Psychopaths Are Running The Asylum
On the state of play and why I’m optimistic despite it all
This is so completely obvious to me that I cannot believe most of us do not realise it, at least at a low level of awareness. An unnerving sense of something uncomfortable lurking in the depths of our minds. It is a sense of alienation and isolation from which we endeavour to distract ourselves with alcohol, drugs, shopping, movies, hobbies, working out, yoga, walks in the park, the latest fad, the new kitchen or bathroom or two weeks in the sun. Choose your distraction; it matters not. We are on the run.
By and large, by the time we hit our forties, many of us are at breaking point. Is it the job itself, the career I chose, my income, or is it my entire life? Is it my relationship, or my fat and out-of-shape body? Is it all these things? These are individual points of disturbance, prominent features of our lives that are open targets for corporate marketing. Whatever it is, worry not. There is a solution for you. We are no longer concerned with the social good, not really. Our concern is for making stuff that sells. And as for workers, well, you’re just an object, a resource to be managed.
So what is this that is so completely obvious?
