Consumerism

Over the last 10 years, there has been something bothering me that I couldn't quite put a finger on. It was ethereal and numbing, something that defied description- yet aspects were apparent in so many different things. While people were busy trying to outblog each other in some insane competition for popularity and implicit revenue, I kept reading the same hype on different topics that simply didn't seem... warranted. Things were going to transform our lives.

In demonstrating Trinidad and Tobago politics with Ernie and Bert, I came across another YouTube Video that explains much of how the global economy has worked during my lifetime: