Yeah well you might think that it's an old man shouting at clouds, and you would be wrong.
I feel and talk about the same stuff that 20-somethings try fumblingly to articulate, but cannot, due simply to their lack of experience.
It's not about age, it's about perspicacity, and apparently you don't have it.
agip it's not about monetary gain, it's about real economic activity. We are churning. All "gain" due to government spending, which takes $2 to return $1 (at best). There is no actual net development.
Now, one could argue that there never really has been, that everything is just a zero-sum game and that we artificially created progress by externalizing negatives. I acknowledge that this is quite possibly true, and I am not advocating for any "return" to any kind of prior "utopia"--i.e. a return to old definitions, categories, and measures.
Indeed, maybe the level of bullshlt has always been the same, it's just that now I'm mature enough to see it. In fact, when I look back at historic paradigms, I see many of the same mechanisms at work, only to me they are conceptual...versus the ones today, which affect my present life, therefore it is those upon which I comment.
Guys like Howe talk of turnings, they seem to me to often be the result of people getting "fed up", and trying to re-set somehow. Tearing down, and rebuilding. Maybe no better each time, just different, and present, so that there is awareness and engagement, the stuff of life.
Anyway, yes by present definitions there are growth and development, it's just that I don't see them making my life any better over any term. And yes, I am making money this year, in fact I'm beating reported inflation--but not by enough to make it worth my time, relative to, say, growing my own food. And I'm playing with a bit.
Maybe, just maybe, I just don't enjoy what I'm doing, because I feel like I have been forced to do it, to pay attention and to tend the financial garden. If I was really loaded, I would pay others to do it, even if they ripped me off a bit.
