Chasing My Own Tail

An idea for an illustration of a comic man chasing his own tail around in circles. An animation (or series of stills) where a man is running around in a circle and a tail grows. His face turns into a TV set with an aerial and mouth changes to dollar signs/religious signs/sitcoms/politics etc. He catches up his own tail and its needle sharp point skewers him. Then a baby crawling in a circle...

Around all this is words and voices from popular media, capitalism and consumerism. Would this be a metaphor for the world or for how we waste our lives?