Oct 27, 2021
I've been predicting the end of the consumer society every few years since the mid 1970s. Maybe now it will happen and good caring people will rebuild a better world from the ashes of this one.
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Written by Larry Fallon
Avid reader, writer, meditator and aging hippie. Creative activities each day, writing, photography, and day dreaming, all keep me coming back tomorrow.
It has been ending since the mid 1970s, if not longer. It's just that we (humans) are very, very bad at noticing slow changes.The wholesale destruction of the middle class spelled the ending of the American Dream; now you only have the lower class…
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