Discarding the Future

Listening on a communications headset during the rehearsal of some corporate meeting within the metallic confines a mega complex of hotels along the Las Vegas Strip. After enduring a 15 minute discussion on the current state of the global warming, the two people striking up the conversation had come to a bit of a stalement in their attempts to convince the other person that their view was the more valid choice. By this point, I had already tuned out the conversation if for no other reason than I could just as easily entertain myself by checking in to the global social networking scene via my smartphone, no better way to whittle away the afternoon than scrolling through the hundred or so phrase like statements of various promotions, pet problems, and personal self esteem issues. The virtual psychatrist is in, sit down on the couch, let the session commence, while the digital masses proceed to unload all their issues on an otherwise sunny day in Las Vegas.

As I immerse a large amount of my lazy consciousness into the rants of the moment, the conversation on the headset takes a turn into the realm of one person stating how he is not really too concerned about what is going to happen in the next fifty years, because by that time he will be dead, as if to say why bother with a solution, just pull the trigger and let the next fool bare the weight. Such a mentality has put the planet in such the current situation of stagnation. People who throughout their lives had decidely continued to exist with their heads in the sand, stepping up to distraction after distraction, turning away from the people in foriegn lands protesting in the street because they cannot get enough bread to eat. Granted, it is a whole lot easier to live in the States, guarded by might, will, and two oceans, to not give a shit but rather chain ourselves down with a lot of useless goods, services, relationships, and store bought ideologies that in the long run neither serve our global interest or foster any desire to participate in political events throughout the global, isn't that why we have elected officials in the first place, to mediate all that political handwringing and so called goodwill, I just want to sit back and fade away on network cable tele-dramas, what's with all the negativity.

The post death state of mind is nothing new, yet as I get older, the opportunity to adopt such views becomes much more inticing, complacent attitudes are like familiar dance partners, the feet are on autopilot and with such an overwhelming menu of activities to divert one's mind from undertaking any particular interest in anything outside your front door; the willingness to keep abreast of things going on in Vegas, Nevada, the US, and the World can feel like trying to take a lawyer bar exam without ever taking any courses in the subject of law, some people can make that jump, very few, and from what I have seen, these types do not come to the forefront for either fear of personal safety or interest in the actions of rule by government institution. Either way, generations have been given soft cushion to exist than with no more requirements than to go to work, consume goods, and maintain a bubble of apathy in which to place oneself within, with these ideals achieved the order of fast food, pop culture, and internalize dream states shall be left undisturbed, so I will go back to my smartphone in order to text some junior high like punch lines to others who relish the prospect of pissing away another fifteen minutes, minus the fame.