Our Great Depression is Our Lives

Late Stage Capitalism

“This type of acceleration encourages weak egos that are easily formed, and fade away just as easily.”

- Jonah Peretti, Capitalism and Schizophrenia

Online you will often see people who portray a character, only to shed said character when it no longer suits them. This is commonly referred to as LARPing, where LARP is an acronym for Live Action Role Playing.

We also see a significant amount of people, particularly young people, lusting after material goods. Status symbols, fast cars, even the right girlfriend or “lay” can be a result of lust rather than true desire. When you put in so much effort in pursuit of these desires, are you even sure they are what you truly want? Or are you simply following the crowd?

Binge drinking among young people is also on the rise over the last 15 years. Binge drinking would be defined here as 4 drinks for women and 5 for men on a single occasion. And I think we can all agree that most who drink will downplay their actual numbers.

So, what do all of these things have in common? It’s symptoms of a society looking to fill the void of their empty lives. It’s symptoms of what is often referred to as “Late Stage Capitalism.”

This is something that is brought up in Fight Club back in 1999. “Advertisers have us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need. We’re the middle children of history, man. No…