April 2, 2012 - How we all became selfish pricks!

Time to drop a history lesson on y'all.

WWI. Flu Pandemic. Stock Market Crash. The Great Depression. Death. Disease. Loss of Jobs. Loss of Independence. Loss of Life. And this was all in a 25-year period.

The children who lived during the depression would go on to fight in WWII. They are able to leave their homes and experience new cultures, new food, new drugs, and new ways of life. And what do they find when they get back? Free trips to college, a huge manufacturing boom, readily-available jobs, and horny women.

Now these soldiers are back at home and they are starting families, and raising children. They want to give their kids everything they could never have. They provide the suburban home, the TV, the radio, and the chicken in every pot. They still gather everyone together as a family.

And here is where we transition. These baby-boomers grow up among affluence, disposable income, and a parent who wants to give them everything they want. The transistor radio is invented allowing for the portability and freedom of music. Elvis sells sex through music and the world is going down the terlet. Advertisers completely shift into selling to this growing generation, and everyone wants to give them material possessions and objects of desire.How do they respond?

They become hippies. . .

We don't need all that stuff, man! We don't need your material goods, man! We don't need the Man, man!

And then the 70s and 80s rolled around. The counterculture had their own children which gave to way to new responsibilities, and all of a sudden . . .

Hippies got jobs.

These people went to work in offices. They created new products and status symbols. The PC, the walkman, and every other device that created individuality and portability. Families didn't gather around technology anymore. Individuals did. Look at the names of the products. The Personal computer. The walkman. It all screams exclusivity and is targeted at just single people. No groups.

I don't want anybody else listening.

Expand technology outward and what do we have in the '90s, 2000s, and 2010s? Even more personal technology. We've got ipods that hold hundreds of collectively, curated and personally tailored music included with headphones so we're the only ones listening. We can watch movies and TV shows on personal screens. We can handle all our finances, and buy everything we need without ever interacting with a human. We don't just have phones anymore, we have smart devices. And they are only going to keep getting smarter. And more personal. Until eventually we reach . . .

Also, as  a quick note. What's the massive undercurrent for all new technology and new advances in the last 50 years?

PORN

And that is how we all became selfish pricks!