Peter Coffin > Quotes

“Postmodernism doesn’t really offer a replacement for universalism, though. Combined with societal norms, this is why I think individualized reality has taken prominence over a collective one. We deconstructed as if deconstruction was the ultimate goal. This could quite possibly be due to the idea our direction has been co-opted by those with power. Their covert redirection of each of us as individuals through promises of empowerment through choice (which they carefully curate) yields many fragile, fragmented perspectives (read: realities) that all operate in service of consumption and capital.”
― Peter Coffin, Custom Reality and You

“Through repeated consumption of a curated, abridged version of an experience, it may be that people can be led to believe that if one fulfills a certain specification, they will be rewarded in kind. This “win conditioning” could help to form identity, acting as both carrot and stick, the establishment of rewards and consequences directing who a person is.”
― Peter Coffin, Custom Reality and You