When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?

Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need.

They placed their bets with such self righteous bravado, but I’m the one who lost.

You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.

You think maybe if you just work harder and faster, you can hold off the chaos, but then one day you’re changing a patio light bulb with a five-year life span and you realize how you’ll only be changing this light maybe ten more times before you’ll be dead.

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.