Garden Of Blog

I ride the UNH shuttle to and from campus every day, during the regular semesters. Like most public transit, the shuttle sports ad banners on the bus walls above our heads. Some find the ubiquity of advertising offensive, but I never saw the problem. We are all looking for a relatively benign way of earning an extra few bucks.

Increasingly, we will have no idea whether what we are reading is advertising, opinion, or somewhere in the middle. Opinion is becoming monetized by degrees and I, for one, am happy about it: if opinions are like assholes, and opinions are money, then maybe everyone will have money at last. Perhaps capitalism only works when the last man sells his soul.