…So what are we to do now, after the crash? It’s not like anything is radically different. Radical change is, I think, impossible in modern America. For better or worse, we’ve achieved a state where, barring absolute cataclysm, we won’t be making any fundamental changes. At least, not ones that will last for very long.
So what do we do now, in the closest thing to a post-consumer society we’re ever likely to see?