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Stupidest Pyramid Scheme Ever
Suburbs based on automobiles.
“Don’t attribute to malice that which can be explained by ignorance- but don’t rule out malice.” Hanlon’s Razor
As Ryan Scott Welch points out, most people only remember the first part because we don’t want to deal with both at the same time. Unfortunately, America has been built on aggressive ignorance. I don’t mean ‘unknown facts’, but the intentionally aggressive avoidance of facts and environments (social and physical).
The vast majority of education takes place through advertising, yet the elitists (those who don’t already work in advertising) still believe humans with credentials are the educated people.
The poor working masses are vastly more educated in how to hate, how to compete, how to kill and most importantly: how to solve all problems in 30 seconds or 30 minutes with guns, sugar, corn or money (“wait for Amazon Prime Day!”). They don’t have time for complex plots and books.
They’re too busy transporting steel and tires to places that don’t need either.
This is my latest internal “WTF?” concept:
If a corporation has 2000 employees driving to work then those people, at their own expense, transport 8 million pounds of steel and 8000 tires to a place every day, where those materials sit unused for…
