30.3.25

Liquid love


As consuming (and spending) more than yesterday but (hopefully) not as much as tomorrow becomes the royal road to the solution of all social problems, and as the sky becomes the limit for the pulling power of successive consumer attractions, debt-collector companies, security firms and penitentiary outfits become major contributors to the growth of GNP. It is impossible to measure exactly the enormous and growing part played in pushing the GNP statistics upwards by the stress emitted by the liquid modern consumer’s life-consuming preoccupations.