Life is money and promotions. It's stabbing others in the back and gossiping around the water cooler. It's toilet paper commercials featuring cutesy bears, and sports cars mid-life-crisis suburbans can't afford, flashes of metallic red and growls of oversized engines tearing up absurd racetracks. It's keeping up with the Joneses and back-to-school sales; it's Botox and antidepressants and Viagra. It's diet plans and shopping on the weekends, sports on TV and posting vacation photos on Facebook. And so we hurdle mindlessly to our doom.