In a way it's kind of exciting too, though, to think that maybe we're on the verge of coming up with some new way of thinking about success. I'm kind of curious to see what a post-consumer society would look like. Of course we'll need several major wars to kill off the excess people, that's a bit of drawback...

(And is it Evil of me to secretly hope that Rick Santorum's kids end up unemployed and not paying a dime into Social Security for him and his wife?)