re: #157 Romantic Heretic

Consumerism and citizenship are almost opposite ideas.

A consumerist society will sell itself to the devil in order to get the best deal.

Eg. America in its current state. Lots of consumers, not enough citizens.

Like the Chinese experiment in communism, Americans have taken capitalism to its logical extreme, and proven that extremes just don’t work. However, similar to the Chinese and communism, we’re too damn stubborn to acknowledge that it just doesn’t work and back off to find a more reasonable compromise. Nope - damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!