/lit/ - Literature

>corporate pharmaceuticals

>The death of God

The death of the sacred in the human being. Civilization has abandoned ideas of honorable conduct impressed upon it by the recognition of an concept or principle higher/bigger than itself. So while we've liberated ourselves from the burden of responsible conduct, we've also bound ourselves in a world where truth, goodness, virtue, posterity, etc. are at best an aesthetic for the bourgeoisie - the very word is telling of modern obsession with appearance of beauty and not the beauty itself - or phrases whored out by politicos and spiritually destitute religious figures

So we get shit like giant islands of human made garbage floating along in the pacific ocean, the burial of nuclear waste under populated areas, genetic modification to food that when eaten damage the ecology of your body, animals going extinct, etc.

And people don't care. Because in a sort of Faustian deal they've traded away their right to choose good for a myriad of technologies that essentially only serve to stifle human progress in their application. Not facilitate it.