As usual finding a Melbourne visi horrific. The urban ant heap is displaying it’s usual pointless frenzy. Some how living in a small community where most people directly contribute in some way to community proceedings while being objectivly futile seems much less so.
In the past 90% of the population were either serfs or slaves and produced a meagre but cumulative surplus for the benefit of the elite. Now the ‘slave line’ is raised so the slaves have become consumersf rather than producers generating profit for the contemporary elite.
Life is less brutish and short but seems hardly more meaningful.