Debt - Like Sin - Implies That

Look At Labor Policy. What's The Point Of Making Everybody Work Too Much? It's Not Very Useful. It Is Destroying The Planet, Actually. But It's Great At Keeping People Off The Streets.

We Are Watching The Beginnings Of The Defiant Self-assertion Of A New Generation Of Americans, A Generation Who Are Looking Forward To Finishing Their Education With No Jobs, No Future, But Still Saddled With Enormous And Unforgivable Debt.

What We're Already Doing Is Communism. The First Step We Have To Make Is To Realize That We're Already Closer To It Than We Think.

Traditional Hedonism...was Based On The Direct Experience Of Pleasure: Wine, Women And Song; Sex, Drugs And Rock 'n' Roll; Or Whatever The Local Variant. The Problem, From A Capitalist Perspective, Is That There Are Inherent Limits To All This. People Become Sated, Bored...modern Self-illusory Hedonism Solves This Dilemma Because Here, What One Is Really Consuming Are Fantasies And Day-dreams About What Having A Certain Product Would Be Like.

Now, We're Used To Thinking Of Communism As Being Once-upon-a-time-all-things-were-owned-in-common, Maybe-someday-this-will-come-again. And People Agree That There Is A Sort Of Epic Narrative Going On Here. I Think We Should Just Throw This Narrative Out, It's Irrelevant Anyway, And Who Cares Who Owns Things? I Don't. You Know, We All Own The White House. So What? I Still Can't Go In, Right?