The best response to the corporate present is not to overthrow it, not to resist it at all, but simply to walk away from it and create what would in essence be a kind of counter culture. I’m assuming it would be very different from the old one for no other reason than that we already tried that once and it didn’t work.
“Soon I hope to live in a totally rubber house. Think how quickly I will be able to get from room to room! One good bounce and you’re there. I have a friend whose hands were melted off by a firebomb during the war. Now, once again, he will learn to pass the bread at the dinner table. Learning is life. I hope to invite him over this evening in fact. Learning is the same colour as life. He says things like that.”
Anne Carson | “Short Talk on Hopes”