For better or worse, a new era has begun?
We are in a new era. An era of hyper capitalism, spendism, smartism, consumerism, monetizationsism, materialism, paymentism, and verificationism. Never before in the history of industrialized society has there been such rapid technological and social change. People are spending more, saving less, technological breakthroughs are being made every day, millions of people from all over the world pour onto the web. We’re in a high tech web 2.0 boom. A global economic boom unlike any ever soon before. Brazil, India and Chinese economies rapidly developing. Emerging market now lead the way, where as in the 90’s the United States was the premiere center of growth.
Millions of Americans are on anti depressants and that figure shows no sign of slowing. Unable to cope with the rapid social and economic changes affecting their environment citizens of industrialized nations seek escapism in the forms of vices and self medication-alcohol, tobacco, drug use, pornography.
To be continued…