While the commercial interests that dominate our lives today are alive, fat and happy in the food industry, they have by no means restricted their attention to the world of gustatory delights. 

The global powers-that-be have over the decades following the Second World War developed a statistical creature called The Consumer.  That has metamorphosed into The Great American Consumer that drives the world economy.  Under relentless marketing pressure this creature has come to dominate the American economy, and increasingly its psyche, and its manufactured gluttony and self indulgence goes well beyond food.  And the world applauds the feeding frenzy as it sells into this market of “super consumers”.
 
It angers me to be considered nothing but an economic pig to be stuffed with stuff, digestible and otherwise.  It disgusts me to see the American population being bred for that purpose by the international Big Boys.   And it is disheartening to see how easily ‘We the People’ are led down that path of corruption that leads to a truly Roman self destruction.
 
It’s truly a Brave New World. 

“Perhaps the Controllers fear historical awareness would stir dissatisfaction with the 'utopian' present. Yet this is itself revealing. For Brave New World is not an exciting place to live in. It is a sterile, productivist utopia geared to the consumption of mass-produced goods: 'Ending is better than mending'. Society is shaped by a single all-embracing political ideology. The motto of the world state is 'Community, Identity, Stability.' “ 
  
"Ending is better than mending".  Aldous Huxely anticipated our throwaway society.  I wonder if they recycled?  Does he have other messages for us?  Are we the first cut of a Brave New World?