Friday\u2019s mass action happened<\/a>. This week, the stock market is in free fall<\/a>. Correlation does not imply causation, but #TeslaTakedown seems to be going pretty well. Shoutout to the protesters, shoutout to Bill S. Preston, Esquire<\/a>, shoutout to any Tesla owners who have sold their cars. It\u2019s never too late to sell your Tesla, or perhaps firebomb it. Speaking of, shoutout to those Teslas in France that, uh, spontaneously combusted<\/a>.<\/p> It\u2019s so easy to buy things in the 21st century U.S. Hell, it\u2019s easy to buy things from your couch, and receive while still on the couch. A 21st century USian can functionally live the life of a cat. I can practically hear my dad through the screen, asking what\u2019s wrong with living the life of a cat, to which I would counter that my dad\u2019s also an accomplished surgeon who also had a long career in international public health and who also plays tennis and violin well into his sixties. With respect to cats, I would like to gently suggest that maybe we should aspire to more spiritual fulfillment.<\/p> To feed that impulse, in lieu of pictures, I\u2019m honoring the recently passed George Lowe<\/a> with clips of Space Ghost Coast To Coast<\/em>. Talk about a stupid bit of comedy. Fascism wants everything to be rigid, to make sense, to have a purpose. Fascism can\u2019t understand laughter, especially laughter that\u2019s hard to explain. So in this anti-materialism column, we\u2019re celebrating one of the great pieces of absurdist art. <\/p>