Kitchener

“We manufactured fake dissent, to prevent real dissent.”
― Matt Taibbi, Hate Inc.: Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another

“In fact, the tension between the sheer quantity of horrifying news and your real-world impotence to do much about it is part of our consumer strategy.

We create the illusion that being informed is a kind of action in itself. So to wash that guilt out—to eliminate the shame and discomfort you feel over doing nothing as the world goes mad—you'll keep tuning in.”
― Matt Taibbi, Hate Inc.: Why Today's Media Makes Us Despise One Another

“You never really get the smell of burning flesh out of your nose entirely, no matter how long you live.”
― J.D. Salinger

“As a professional misanthrope, I believe that if you are going to hate a person, you ought to do it properly. You should go and live in his shoes for a while, and see at the end of it how much you hate yourself.”
― Matt Taibbi, Spanking the Donkey: Dispatches from the Dumb Season