In summary, if you think the world is going to change for the better - for everyone, including the people far away we want to "help" - it aint gonna happen without the onshoring of whole lot more weariness, pollution, compromise, desperation and dread.

Would you still want a new iphone every couple years if the battery recycling plant is next to your kids daycare?

For 75% of our needs we can coast for a decade on all the junk we have atm - for the rest just slow tf down

Our expectations about life and happiness are built on the backs of people who would be happy to have running water.

Meanwhile we will fight till the end to maintain our luxuries, no matter uneccesary they are, and anything preventing access becomes "the problem" - even each other.

As economic pressure mounts in the west & the avg person begins to feel stress long common to the global south, I worry we will double down on the primacy of luxury rather than re-examine our priorities

grow food.

I just want to reiterate how arrogant, ignorant, and tacky this whole thing is.

Margaritaville is the longing for - and celebration of - a world that functions as a budget destination for even the lowliest US chump to live like a king, get wasted, bang some ethnic broads until you overstay your welcome (run out of money)

Margaritaville is the anthem of doe-eyed american entitlement, wasteful hubris, shallow self-reflection and lame, no-rhythm-having expat barfly binge drinking self-pity

Shame

"Margaritaville" is why progressive Americans shit the bed w every chance to self assess and change - bc they cant accept we're 3 generations into a scenario that only works for a fraction of the planet

your nosalgia > their suffering

pondering the deeper meaning of a "lost shaker of salt" in a place where state-sponsored narco gangs routinely leave severed heads in ditches and street orphans sell pens to tourists??

..tourists just trying to have cheeseburgers in paradise...

PARADISE? Shame.

Music is a beautiful, innate language that supersedes all others to speak directly. Im glad he, like anybody else, was able to develop and share his message. Feeling good is important.

..but what if Jimmy was Jacques and the US was a lesser power where you will NEVER afford a vacation (thus dont feel entitled to one)

..and the song was called "Poutine in Detroit" ?

How about "Duck Confit in 'Murica" ?

Im sad when our better advocates leave their blinders on for our guilty pleasures.