Check Engine

Wednesday May 11, 2005 - 1:40AM EDT

My got damn check engine light came on today. Fuck, ah well. I'm eating Wendy's chili right now. I was thinking again about a society without rampant consumerism. I am referring to not having 25 different kinds of toothpaste to choose from where the difference between them in ingredients is about .0001%. What would that be like? I'll probably never find out in my lifetime. You know what sucks. Is that if I live the average time for an adult male in the US I think I'll die just before all the cool stuff starts happening. Regular space travel, solar powered everything, batteries that never die, fresh strawberries anytime you want, plane travel to anywhere in less than 10 minutes. All this wicked awesome crap is going to happen at the end of my lifetime. I wonder what the future world will be like. I try to compare it to movies, tv shows and whatnot. Will it be like Star Trek, Star Wars, Cowboy Bebop Outlaw Star or Midas World? There has got to be something to learn from the recent rash of corporate scandals and collapses. Is it a signal of weakeness in the system that needs to be addressed or is it a anamalous occurence or just normal. The expert economists are probably asking themselves the same thing. I'm tired.