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A fast-paced, dehumanized workplace, materialistic hedonism, widespread narcissism...?

...conspicuous consumption, profiteering, insider trading, exploitative advertising, domination of nature, planned obsolescence, and gratuitous violence... ...Do you think we're having too much fun? And should music artists like "Pink," given the circumstances, encourage us to "Get The Party Started...?" ...Should we slow down a bit, and give "Pink" a valium...? ...Or should we throw a party, and discuss this topic some more over a few hundred pitchers of blended, top-shelf Margaritas and Daquiri's while we take raunchy pictures with our cell-phone cameras while making love to strangers as we listen to the latest CD's of Gangsta' Rappers and tell each other Stock Purchase secrets on the top floor of our office building near Sak's Fifth Avenue making sure we call home to tell our spouses we're in an important business meeting and won't be home tonight because we're "really" too busy experimenting with the latest designer drugs and latex glow-in-the-dark condoms?

Public Comments

1. I don't know, but the first part of your questions sounded like the movie "Office Space."
2. wow, this is one of the coolest questions I have seen on Yahoo Answers. I think you are my new hero, besides Ron Paul. You are totally right, and my solution, which isn't really a "solution" but just adherence to the ontology of the universe, is believing in the Living Truth - Christ -- who pierced through all the darkness you described.
3. I don't think the way we're currently living is going to last very long, And so we'd might as well enjoy it while we can. Light up that hookah, And let that plastic rapper work his song Because we won't realize how truly wonderful the materialistic life is until it's taken away. PS, How can you not love glow in the dark condoms?
4. well said
5. Man! Talk about a stream of conscience! More like a RIVER of conscience. :-) Very cool, by the way. And it's why I'm trying to live my life much more simply these days. Society is just too hectic and frenetic and shallow and unconnected and desperate for normalcy.
6. are you religious, if so go ahead and spend 2hrs. every sunday otherwise spend it at a party. I recomend just spending a few minutes desiding if you should chug that 3rd pitcher.
7. Easy paced humanized workplaces, and life that celebrates all the gifts we receive so generously from life, and a spirit that abounds all, how about talking about it for a while?
8. "To thine own self be true." That's why I opted to drop the f*ck out of that wholesale hypocracy (sp?) over a decade ago. Let the dervishes whirl. Let the sheep get fat. The party will end one fine day. And if it happens in my lifetime, at least I've regained the gift of being able to look at myself in the mirror without guilt or shame. And NO, I'm not some deluded religious zealot. I'm not even "religious." ;oD
9. Man has an unparalleled thirst for pleasure, intrigue and diversion. a short look back into the American 20's, the Nazi fervor, French opulence, roman hedonism, and the list goes on... Sure man can go further. I am sure he will. but at some point, people of a more conservative nature will separate themselves from the society, move on and build anew. while the remaining many die away in the decay of their own filth. Happens all the time. There is really no point in telling these people that what they are doing is destroying them, as they are well aware of it. They have nothing else to live for. Death holds no hope for them and life is a race to the grave. So everyday is a party and nothing really matters. Nothing is sacred. And it is in this ignorance they die. Once in a great while you can show them hope and get them excited about it, and they are worth the effort. But these are the exception, not the rule.