I used to work for a company I nicknamed “Senseless”.

They have the following tagged onto the bottom of every single email they send out:

Sensless. Australia’s leading information resource.

Making complex lives simpler by helping you find, buy and sell.

www.Sensless.com.au – www.yellow.com.au – www.whitepages.com.au – www.citysearch.com.au
- www.about.Sensless.com.au
www.whereis.com.au – www.gostay.com.au – www.justlisted.com.au – www.tradingpost.com.au
- www.linkme.com.au
www.carshowroom.com.au – www.telstra.com.au – www.smallbusiness.Sensless.com.au
- www.universalpublishers.com.au

Sensless cares for the environment – think before you print.

This email and any attachments are intended only for the use of the
recipient and may be confidential and/or legally privileged.
Sensless Pty Ltd disclaims liability for any errors, omissions,
viruses, loss and/or damage arising from using, opening or
transmitting this email.
If you are not the intended recipient you must not use, interfere
with, disclose, copy or retain this email and you should notify the
sender immediately by return email or by contacting Sensless Pty Ltd
by telephone on [+61 3 8888 8888]

Liike *anyone* reads this crap these days? It’s so Web 0.1!

This statement though makes me larf:

Senseless cares about the environment

No they don’t. Otherwise they wouldn’t be printing massive phone books that no-one actually uses and sticking all the crap on the end of email that ends up making a 1 page email conversation 3 and a half if it was ever printed.

Morons.

Looks like I wasn’t the only one to have had an unpleasant night Thursday into Friday.

Of course, the book I was reading — The Fifth Sacred thing — didn’t help. I’m up to the part where the army stomps into San Francisco, which has been recreated as an ecological utopia, and they start killing people and the land.

This turned my stomach because, while I know the book is fiction, knowing that there are people out there who would gladly destroy and control rather than create, it’s very easy to see where we could go… and horribly, are going.

Take the Port of Melbourne Authority and dredging Port Philip Bay. The politicians have rolled-over to big money. The authority only gives a damn about its money income, and the bay — by all accounts — will be utterly devastated.

Why?

Because we can. Because money is more important than the world in which we live. Because the whole domination-at-all-costs behaviour pattern is now out of control.

Only after the last tree has been cut down
Only after the last river has been poisoned
Only after the last fish has been caught
Only then will you find you cannot eat money
– Cree prophecy

We only have one place to live. All the money in the world won’t change that. We have no vision, no forward thinking. Nothing can save us but ourselves, but we’re all so tied-up in this cult-of-the-individual, mortgaged up to our eyeballs in slavery to the banks, the businesses and the society, that we can’t see past the next paycheque.