What Gorgeous Thing

Crows as Cheerful as Saints

Not Doing, But Consuming

The irony: the more we consume, the emptier we are.

One of the most difficult lessons to learn in life, because it is counterintuitive, is that if some is good, more may well be worse, even much worse. The whole of the American consumer advertising industry is dedicated to helping us forget that lesson, if we were ever smart enough to learn it.