Traditional consumerism, which is something I've always believed to be unfair and unrewarding, leaves a heavy, thick fog behind. I think that's what people see, regardless.

It is the fog that I feel from it. There is so little enjoyment in what I see other people enjoying. Am I broken?

I see that happening only if society becomes dependent on AI as the provider of all things, basically consuming us.

I suspect that there will be again a split, with an ever-smaller group of people taking the extreme approach of not doing what the masses are doing. they will be the ones benefiting from the masses.