I worry that an entire generation of westerners has become a collection of parasites. Like every generation before us, we want to see our values survive. Like our ancestors, we want to influence the world and leave our imprint on society. But unlike those earlier generations, we seem to have lost the ability to accomplish those goals by creating, building, inventing, and imagining. This has bled over to our music and even our financial understanding of stocks. I use MU and ZOOM as vectors for this thought process.