The western world is now corporate world. People work for corporations. They invest their excess money tokens in corporations. Corporations make the entire material culture and they make and control almost the entire popular culture. The representatives of corporations write the laws.
The people who are produced by the corporate lifestyle are very weird. The idea that a person will "work" 48 or 50 weeks a year, and then spend their "free" time on a "vacation" is a great example of this weirdness. Typically, people go to the mountains and live a primitive life for a couple of weeks to relax, or they go to the beach and live a simple, hedonistic primitive life.
Frequently, the corporate cog bourgeois person will seek to have an "authentic" experience with real people, that they then share on Faceberg. For example, if they're vacationing in a mountain town where people actually build log cabins to really live in, the "experience" of being around real log cabin builders, or maybe helping them do some simple task, like carrying a log will be a completely unrivaled thrill. They seek "authentic" experience because their life is counterfeit, and they know it on a deep level.
Being human is really about wrestling with natural forces on their own terms, which is often terrifying and dangerous. Hobbies like surfing, or even bicycling can provide that primal connection with the physical world in little doses. Farming or gardening also provide that primal connection.
I believe family farming is the closest a person living in civilization can get to being a complete human being. It's a multi-dimensional, very taxing, often dangerous profession. The people who succeed at it are unique. They're more like royalty than kings and queens, and certainly much more worthy of emulation than sports figures or celebrities.
The corporate cog sees money as the answer to living a "full" life, but the money actually deforms the person.
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