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Salman Rushdie

“Something strange has happened to the idea of privacy in our surreal time. Instead of being cherished, it appears to have become, a valueless quality—actually undesirable. If a thing is not made public, it doesn’t really exist. Your dog, your wedding, your beach, your baby, your dinner, the interesting meme you recently saw—these things need, on a daily basis, to be shared. Where attention has become the thing most hungered for, where the quest for followers and likes is the new gluttony, privacy has become unnecessary, unwanted, even absurd.”

Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
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Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie
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