Through our constant striving for convenience, we are eradicating the raucous and edifying beauty of our true environment and replacing that beauty with a safe but completely faux environment. We have a society steadily undoing itself, it might be argued, by its win over resourcefulness. Clever, ambitious and always in search of greater efficiency, we have, created a world of push - button, round - the - clock comfort for ourselves.

The basic needs of humanity - food, clothing, shelter, entertainment, transportation, and even sexual pleasure - no longer need to be personally laboured for or ritualized or even understood. All these things are available to us now for mere cash. Or credit.

'Show up for your own life...don't pass your days in a stupor, content to swallow whatever watery ideas modern society may bottle - feed you through the media, satisfied to slumber thorugh life in an instant - gratification sugar coma...be awake' (Last American Man, Elizabeth Gilbert).