At the beginning of life there were midwives to assist in birth and a more communal setting, now gone in favor of a sterile impersonal factory setting called a hospital. The naturalness of birth and the beginning of family has now been wrenched from the home to a far away place where unknown officials meddle with instruments, powerful drugs, and indiscriminate advice that has little to do with raising the child meaningfully.

Soon schooling begins within another factory box building that is poorly placed, usually on cleared land devoid of any life, and often far away of unwalkable distance from the family home. The indoor fluorescent lighted cramped classroom separates the pupils from the outdoor knowledge of the land and nature. Impressed on these classroom students is the empty technological thought that man is without meaning apart from what Microsoft, Dow Chemical, and General Electric deem.

With schooling complete, the need for housing apart from parents and family arises and the choices fall to crime riddled lower income areas, outer suburbs far from amenities, and where $200,000 town homes stand glaring across a dividing wall at $300,000 town homes.

Towns never used to be like this in America. The doctor in the large Victorian home used to live down the street from folks in simpler homes, and the two neighbors would share the same streets—conversing perhaps—while walking on the way to the nearby grocery or clothing store. The dynamic differences of human greed that Wal-mart pitted against Nordstrom and Whole Foods changed all of that.

How did this state of ongoing segregation happen? Through the skills of marketing that seek to divide one type of person against another; by exploiting people's desire for self expression against other people. This method of self expression will, in the end, to the degree of its convincing, collapse a society into pure self indulgence and meaninglessness.

Prior times saw marketing and advertising as a simple affair. The magnitude of pervasiveness and sophistication of this same field of artists today is unprecedented and no person of average or lower mind, the bulk of America, can resist the temptations and rewards of advertising's glittering offerings.

Marketers and advertisers have tapped into an open frontier of any result—the subconscious consumer mind. Marketers know the typically sapped and wilted consumer mind is ripe to desire things and therefore easily influenced.

However, humans often tend to enjoy mingling, helping one another, and being considerate towards their neighbors; or generally stated, being amiable—an important detail advertisers overlooked.