Love the quick profit, the annual raise,
vacation with pay. Want more
of everything ready-made. Be afraid
to know your neighbors and to die.
And you will have a window in your head.
Not even your future will be a mystery
any more. Your mind will be punched in a card
and shut away in a little drawer.
When they want you to buy something
they will call you. When they want you
to die for profit they will let you know.

So, friends, every day do something
that won’t compute. Love the Lord.
Love the world. Work for nothing.
Take all that you have and be poor.
Love someone who does not deserve it.
Denounce the government and embrace
the flag. Hope to live in that free
republic for which it stands.
Give your approval to all you cannot
understand. Praise ignorance, for what man
has not encountered he has not destroyed.

Ask the questions that have no answers.
Invest in the millenium. Plant sequoias.
Say that your main crop is the forest
that you did not plant,
that you will not live to harvest.
Say that the leaves are harvested
when they have rotted into the mold.
Call that profit. Prophesy such returns.

Put your faith in the two inches of humus
that will build under the trees
every thousand years.
Listen to carrion - put your ear
close, and hear the faint chattering
of the songs that are to come.
Expect the end of the world. Laugh.
Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful
though you have considered all the facts.
So long as women do not go cheap
for power, please women more than men.
Ask yourself: Will this satisfy
a woman satisfied to bear a child?
Will this disturb the sleep
of a woman near to giving birth?

Go with your love to the fields.
Lie down in the shade. Rest your head
in her lap. Swear allegiance
to what is nighest your thoughts.
As soon as the generals and the politicos
can predict the motions of your mind,
lose it. Leave it as a sign
to mark the false trail, the way
you didn’t go. Be like the fox
who makes more tracks than necessary,
some in the wrong direction.
Practice resurrection.

The decision for a longer hour work day as well as the movement to force the Mothers to work too makes perfect sense. (Double the taxes too).
Especially if the goal is to raise a child who has less influence from its parents and more from The State. Obedient consumers mesmerized by Pharmaceuticals, TV and Government Shock Doctrine.
They took the history away from the youth and now they have no future as well. Network programming replaced the Oral Tradition. Each Generation a shadow of the next. Much was lost for none who live remember it. Until Life Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness means nothing more than getting the next Iphone. Eager to live in a WiFi saturated nightmare warping and humming 24/7.
Totally lost, distorted and expendable.

It’s a strange sensation, actually feeling pride at owning the bottom-of-the-line.

The cellular phone industry is a good example.

Back in the late 80’s cellphones were expensive, and they let the user make phone calls without being tethered to a single, specific location. More than that, they were expensive, bulky, and quite the status symbol. The next trend was to make the phone smaller, lighter, cheaper and with better coverage, but still basically just a device for person to person voice communications. Some phones started adding personal organized functions and even video games. Before long, the organizer functions and games became a requirement for even the cheapest phones. Now most phones are expected to have Bluetooth capability, music player, and a camera, and the next push is for the text-messaging thumb-board type phones.

So every few months, cellphone uses are expected to buy a new phone with more features and toss the old one.