Games Up

When did it happen?
 
There must have been something or someone that turned 8 billion of us into consumers.
 
Which country set us on this path, where day by day, we take more from the planet and give only rubbish and our broken bodies back?
 
I'll take a stab in the dark and say the USA set the trend and we all will follow to the end, like cultists,trapped by a charismatic leader.
 
 Algorithms now work us over from sun up until sundown,silently, skilfully curating everything we do,see, eat,watch and buy.For capatilists,happy times,they have reached Erewhon, their Nirvana.They destroyed the individual, hunted us down, corralled us into pockets of naysayers and conspiracy theorists.The truth is not out there somewhere,it's inside you but on life support.
 
In all this, the companies cannot see their own demise through large, red and greedy eyes.They'll  hardly care or give a damn when mother nature dies.
 
Do we have to sacrifice dreams for a Krispy Kreme?
Or sell our souls for Halloween?
 
That's my Saturday morning rant from the back deck.