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How Streaming Madness Is The Maddening Bully
Streaming is a crazy world that produces toxins that both comfort and disturb in equal doses. Of course anything is better than the bad old days, when cable bills were beyond comprehension, with similar tricks that still host skyrocketing phone bills that are meant to be expensive without a solid reason why.
The urgent desire to simplify is an active status that most can relate to with the caveat of never quite figuring out how to make that possible.
Take the global religion that is Apple Inc., and its audacity to slap incredulous charges on mobile phones that will cost you a month’s rent, based on the sleekness of the “i” before the Phone, and the cultish following that promises to come close to homelessness for the sake of owning gadgets that don’t fly.
When it comes to the streaming wars, and the manufactured environment that predictably takes shit too far, for the static dispositions that truly don’t know what they want, outside of the obvious motivation of escapism, we are all united in the fact that we were built for this.
There’s a lot to be disturbed about, and I’m not just referring to the daily grind of struggling to put food on the table under a wobbly roof, over the heads that belong to you.
