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Sunday, January 27, 2008

Discussion with Thomas de Zengotita

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Kyle says:
January 28th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
Perhaps the result of all of this is that we commodify everything, yet are completely unaware of ourselves? I see dozens of people who exemplify this in my own life.

We are nothing more than consumers and manipulators… we are all individualized gods.

Post-culturalism: fantastic description! Nothing is passed down anymore, everything is a consumer choice.
douglas says:
January 31st, 2008 at 11:47 pm
In another interview, de Zengotita talks about the flattery inherit in most literature, television and other media. When Shakespeare wrote, he wasn’t too concerned about the reader. Today, the reader is a major part of a writer’s work. We have to be flattered and we expect to be.