My new boss invited me to go to lunch. Lunch turned out to be an awards luncheon for the downtown partnership where our group had a table. Comrades I have never seen so many faces of capital in my life. 1,000 suits and pantsuits that see the entire landscape around them as a vast frontier that they can exploit. 1,000 suits and pantsuits chowing down on salmon and applauding each other for finding the most creative and profitable ways for real estate capital to devour every untouched pocket of urban land in my city and be securitized and revitalized and gentrified to oblivion.
I don't know how we are going to resist this absolute monolith going forward but my feeling after today is pretty bleak.
:yea:
Try to keep in mind that that level of concentrated ghoulishness is rare. It's an unhealthy thing to be exposed to and they're still a tiny minority when compared to society writ large. The human brain isn't good at processing larger numbers/groups well and it's easy to overestimate them in person, and harder yet to imagine them in the greater context when that context is impossible to physically see for comparison.