Rampant Stagnation

Look around you. New is no longer new. New is the re-branded, re-marketed old. Dusty, packed up memories sold to you as trendy and cutting edge. Masses of tweens, twitterers and Twi-hards lining up to buy what their friends have to have. Want to want. Need to need. Unconsciously fueling companies that could only be described as "culture vultures". Picking every last piece of sub-culture off society's skeleton. Luckily enough I am conscious enough to recognize this. Sadly I still buy into it all the time.