doomspending and europoor summer

This is v good Prada is cheap. Rent is expensive. I tell a friend, "Americans bring their neuroses to Europe like conquistadors brought syphilis back from the New World." It’s post-human, not that the Silicon Valley strivers care, even think that’s a bad thing. That’s their aspiration after all. Which sometimes I think comes more out of resentment than anything else. “If all the rules that you followed brought you here, of what use are the rules?” So much wealth and yet no idea how to live. They see the happy boy in the window earning a pittance, and his breezy demeanor doesn’t charm them, it pisses them off. Who is this loser to be so happy? They don’t want to confront the question, how is it I have so much, yet am so sad? All the money and goon caves and brain implants in the world can’t save them from themselves. It can only distract them. Full piece here _ Reply via email Previous