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Wednesday 30 December 2009

For every holiday party I attend, partygoers speak of job losses they’ve suffered this year, some as recently as this month of December when they have been laid off from relatively lucrative jobs as lawyers, engineers, and architects. Their adult children are returning to live at home because they too have lost their jobs or have never even seen a job after graduating from college. The imminent horrors of global warming pale in the immediacy of sudden mind death or SMD. Work — whether paid or not — stimulates the mind, and when people are untethered from engaging in productive activity, even it’s destructive in nature (such as war or encouraging consumption in useless and energy-sucking ventures such as Hummers and self-serving platforms for social media), the mind begins to atrophy. SMD is like a coma afflicted on the unemployed, and like the toxic fog in Berkeley’s winter, it enshrouds the country. Berkeley Blog

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