http://prairieprogressive.com/2007/09/25/a-marketplace-beset-by-rot/ thoughts while vastly outnumbered on the northern great plains Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:38:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc http://prairieprogressive.com/2007/09/25/a-marketplace-beset-by-rot/#comment-4482 Eagle Tue, 25 Sep 2007 21:07:54 +0000 http://prairieprogressive.com/2007/09/25/a-marketplace-beset-by-rot/#comment-4482 I think that our lives have gotten to be so empty that we are scrambling to find meaning in other peoples troubles. I remember a sci-fi book talking about people just watching other peoples lives because there was not enough room on the planet for everyone to live fully. I wonder if we are not seeing a form of this loss of meaning. People are not really connected to the community where they get there food or anything else so are cutoff from any meaningful interactions with others. So to find community they turn to sensational stories. With everything becoming a commodity it all loses meaning and does not have heart strings attached to it. I think that our lives have gotten to be so empty that we are scrambling to find meaning in other peoples troubles. I remember a sci-fi book talking about people just watching other peoples lives because there was not enough room on the planet for everyone to live fully. I wonder if we are not seeing a form of this loss of meaning. People are not really connected to the community where they get there food or anything else so are cutoff from any meaningful interactions with others. So to find community they turn to sensational stories. With everything becoming a commodity it all loses meaning and does not have heart strings attached to it.

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