The other half is to dramatize the fact that we still "are" human beings, now. Or can be.

The assumption that you everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism.

What teachers and the administration in that era never seemed to see was that the mental work of what they called daydreaming often required more effort and concentration than it would have taken simply to listen in class. Laziness is not the issue. It is just not the work dictated by the administration.

But if you've really learned how to think, how to pay attention, then you will know you have other options. It will be within your power to experience a crowded, loud, slow, consumer-hell-type situation as not only meaningful but sacred, on fire with the same force that lit the stars - compassion, love, the sub-surface unity of all things.

It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase.

I wish you way more than luck.

Most of us will still take nihilism over neanderthalism.