Gautier's Day

I ponder why it is.  Why is it that things can’t just be standard things?  HD television, blu-rays, IMAX movie theaters, XM Satellite radio, hell…even HD radio.  How does that even work?  “Now, you can listen to music in 1080P!”  That just doesn’t make sense to me.  And people buy into that sort of thing?  Really?  What have we come to?  As a people, I mean.  So long as something sounds like an upgrade from the social norm, it has to be had.  Materialism is at an all-time high and the economy is at an all-time low.  Sure, the economy is trying to bounce back, whatever, but when it comes down to it; think of how much has been sacrificed in the sense of humanity having any kind of real meaning.  People becoming so debase that they place their personal value on how much U.S. tender they carry in their electronic bank accounts, and how high or low their collective credit scores are.  How sad a story and how dreary a picture.  Life wasn’t meant for this.  What happened to living for the sake of living? Playing for the sake of playing?  Art for Art’s sake?