Blooming commercial value! Sadly this is the ‘slap in the face’ process we must resort to, when demonstrating favour.

This is heavily manipulated and massaged so our magnificent choice becomes either the devil or the deep blue sea. We can get a gist of how well this system of ‘gathering together resources to fund shared undertakings’ is, by comparing the general themes and ideas that are important to the ‘regular’ person, with what is actually manifested in the ‘real’ world.

Short sighted process moulds people into consumers. Imagination is not encouraged in the consumer. It (Imagination) is instead shackled to the ‘dark side’; Used to perpetuate those dead end avenues.

The selfish soul and the selfish gene are two different types of ‘selfish’. They are not overly compatible; Each wishes for the death of the other.

You are right to mention addiction. It is a process, much like a journey through the underworld. Falling faster, automation increases. Freedom and choice decrease. Until suddenly there is nowhere left to fall. A spark of consciousness. ‘How did I get here?’

Now to negotiate the labyrinth! Looking out for clues and those half-remembered places, glimpsed but briefly on that frantic descent.