David Hogg wanted to change the world…
Now he’s starting a pillow company… because it turns out that Changing the World! is hard.
Folks, if David Hogg can’t do it with the backing of the mainstream media, Harvard, Fortune 500 companies, and every ambulatory Democratic politician with a pulse… well, it makes you wonder if the “your life has no meaning unless you are Changing the World!” concept that our corporate and political elites have been selling us for the last decade is worth anything at all.
We used to derive meaning in our lives from faith in God and our families, but going to Church or having a big extended-family dinner (currently illegal in many states, by the way) doesn’t help Wall Street or Washington D.C. Every hour you spend in Church or with your family is an hour you’re not buying cheap Chinese crap at Wal-Mart, or typing angry screeds into Twitter/Facebook/Google, or writing a check to some Super PAC that was just created last Thursday, or filling out your mail-in ballot (and also the five other ballots you found in the gutter).
And that just won’t do.
So now, instead, we’re supposed to derive meaning from the gauzy ephemeral notion that we can “Change the World!” (TM)… as long as we keep consuming, donating to politicians, and voting for the right people while we do it, of course.
But they don’t say that last part out loud.
Opiate of the masses indeed.