Grumpyness due to intermediation

[degringolade]

Symbolism / Paul Gauguin/ What's New?

    Most of my life has been commodified.  I struggle against it, but I live in a society where commodity is king, queen, and duke.  It is difficult if not impossible to find a section of my life that isn’t part and parcel of someone else’s plans to fulfill their desires.  

Most of the time I don’t really have a problem with this.  As I have stated in the past “next to language, money is the most important medium through which modern society communicates.”  But lately I have been getting progressively more annoyed by the grammar of this particular means of communication.

Now, I am not thinking that we go all anarchist and cut away the underpinnings of society, but I do think that it is time to strip away a lot of the undergrowth.  I don’t really have a plan for this, but somehow the idea that the country owes every two-bit huckster a slot in the food chain in order to allow him to siphon off a couple of percent might have to be called into question.

I had great hopes for the internet in the long ago.  But it seems to have become a pyramid scheme where every Tom, Dick, and Harry attempt to either generate a useless piece of nothing to peddle directly or find a way to insert themselves between the producer and the consume for a couple of bucks.

Now this isn’t saying that I don’t use the market or the internet, but I am just noticing that the parasites feeding off the organism are looking to have more mass than the organism itself.