Food, clothing and shelter don’t really cover it anymore. It being the necessities, those things we cannot live without. For many people, survival has been boiled down to one thing. Actually, it’s two things, but we take one for granted such that it is rarely mentioned.
Death and Taxes might be inevitable, but to stay in the game you’ve got to have a combo more akin to Breath and Cash. Or, as better put in Ape Con Myth’s first blog post:
There’s the simplified version. Now let’s go the other direction with it…
That’s more like it. Okay, it’s 2010 AD. Civilization has had a few thousand years. How are we doing in fulfilling these needs?
… We’ve got some work to do.
[Yes, we do. And now in 2012, with the Supreme Court considering the fate of one piece of this puzzle, Ape Con Myth’s live redesign is paving the way to take our study to the next level. How do we stop wasting our time struggling and find out what happens when we really dedicate some time to living?]
Ben Chatterton
I always thought that “All You Need Is Love”. Turns out that it’s air and money. (Actually, it would be interesting to find out how much money you need in order to have a successful relationship in America. It’s almost certainly a non-zero amount.)