Samsung, an electronics corporation,
says it expects sales of 3 million sets
allowing a new digital vacation
in spite of our accumulated debts.
These sets give thick screens in 3 dimenstions
designed for “home theater enthusiasts”,
seizing their remote controlled attentions
as spare time leisure boredom therapists.
9 billion dollars spent on gadgetry
while the real 3D world disintegrates
an elite few wrapped in technology
at platinum card special discount rates.
We search for work as the upper classes
hide behind their new pairs of dark glasses.
Home computers used to cost tens of thousands of dollars too. Now you can buy a lower end computer for a few hundred bucks at Best buy.
Very few people are going to buy this 3d television set at these prices when the technology is no good yet anyway.
10 years from now, we we might see something reasonable though.
10 years from now we may all be without electricity.
That’s what you said 10 years ago.
Read:
http://www.economicpopulist.org/content/why-we-are-headed-depression
Well, Jim, if we don’t fix the damn grid it’ll soon start serving us in the same way (y)our vaunted government serves us. You don’t have to believe it and my timing may be off, but like peak oil and its ramifications, we face a real problem sometime in the not-too-distant future THAT WE’RE NOT PREPARING FOR. So keep up your smirking chimp attitude and see what happens, dumbass. Instead, why don’t you try prodding that Congress you go on and on about to fucking DO something that isn’t short term, corporatist profit centered?
This can be sung to the tune of “My Back Pages” if you cram extra words into the ends of a few bars the way folk songs often do.