Mentions (3)
"literally everyone everywhere now wears headphones, airpods, whatever, drowning their psyches, all of the time. no one talks to strangers, listens to the sounds of the environment or endures the consequences of heavy machinery or other people existing — just turn the volume up. you can literally con"
"This is a regime of total equivalency, where cultural products need no longer even pretend to be real in a naïve sense, because the experiences of consumers' lives are so predominantly artificial that even claims to reality are expected to be phrased in artificial, 'hyperreal' terms."
"literally everyone everywhere now wears headphones, airpods, whatever, drowning their psyches, all of the time. no one talks to strangers, listens to the sounds of the environment"