Jay

“But the object cannot be allowed to escape from ephemerality or from fashion.”
― Jean Baudrillard, The System of Objects

“In our very democratic, or rather, very plebeian age, "education" and "culture" must be essentially the art of deceiving - deceiving with regard to origin, with regard to the inherited plebeianism in body and soul.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

“but we have reached the point now where even the most sublime experience of Nature on Earth has devolved into just one more means to an end to getting likes on social media. People are dancing with the possibility of death just to steal a little dopamine rush to the brain which will wear off in a few seconds anyway and for a status update which will be buried by the algorithm after just 24 hours due to a lack of relevance.”
― Chad A. Haag, Hermeneutical Death: The Technological Destruction of Subjectivity

“How reluctant later generations will be to have anything to do with the relics of an era ruled, not by living men, but by pseudo-men dominated by public opinion.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche