Too nihilistic and one-sided, but it's partly my fault.

I said the desire crisis was global, but it's actually restricted to global cities, the heart of the post-modern, neoliberal, globalized world that you've described.

However, this world isn't universalized.

There are plenty of places on earth where people live in their villages and hardly hear about anything that happens outside of their region.

There are plenty of people that voluntarily dont go on social media. And then there are plenty of them that can't afford to. Then there are plenty of people who choose a different, more traditional lifestyle, or refuse the "globalist lifestyle".

True desires still exist. It's not because you live in a capitalist society that you participate to conspicuous consumption or to the worldwide status game.

Post-modernism isn't universal either. As crazy as it is, the truth still exists in many places.

So you don't have to be a part of the system. I know people that arent, living on a farm, purchasing goods from local markets, and hardly tuning into mass media.

This world is out there, it's the default world that exists when one disconnects from the "global arena".

But what fun is there to be outside of that arena? I, for once, want to participate. I want to influence and reach out. I want my message to matter.

The cost for this is the global desire crisis.