Enough people misunderstood this post that I thought I’d clarify further.

A couple points.

1. I’m aware the mosquito thing is real.

2. I’m not condescending to the people that work at the grocery store.

The employees aren’t the problem. Honest people, doing honest work, locked into a world where they’re being fed a firehose of anxiety-inducing “esoteric knowledge” that they can’t act on in any meaningful way.

That was the moment that hit me:

Who does this actually serve?

Because it’s not serving them. A person making $20 an hour doesn’t have the structural power to stop Bill Gates, halt bioengineered mosquitoes, or dismantle the pharmaceutical industry. So why is this the information they’re flooded with?

It seems like a lot of the information that hits our screens is being handed out like candy. Not to awaken people, but to distract them. To simulate power and insight without providing any.

It gives the illusion of control like “I know what’s going on” while keeping everyone emotionally revved up and politically paralyzed. That’s what I meant by “the new opiate of the masses.”

It’s not about them. It’s about what they’re being sold.

And yeah, the ground beef was still $5.49 a pound. Which is a pretty good deal