An exercise in futility, or blind hope. Ah, well, its what we do, isn’t it?
American “culture” has turned into a consumerist pit, a huge machine that grinds up natural resources at one end and produces loud, shiny crap at the other. We don’t need this shit, nobody needs this shit, we just think we do because the people who make a living selling this shit have conned us into thinking we do.
As a classic example, passing tax breaks through Congress so that SUV’s can be sold more readily. Monumentally stupid, short-sighted, and wasteful. We screamed our heads off, nobody listened.
Bad news is someday we will really regret it. Good news is, we probably won’t regret it for very long.