Status Updates From Karaoke Culture

"Opulence should be left where it can do the least harm -- in the realm of the imagination."

The terms—émigré, immigrant, exile, nomad, minority, ethnic, hybrid literature—... With these terms the home base expels the writer [and] makes assumptions of monoculturalism and exclusivity, while the host environment makes assumptions of multiculturalism and inclusivity, but both are essentially working with dusty labels of ethnicity and the politics of otherness.

We wanted individual freedom and achieved the freedom of imitation. ... We voluntarily got ourselves lost in a house of crooked mirrors, and there’s no way back to our authentic reflection.

The very foundation of karaoke culture lies in the parading of the anonymous ego with the help of simulation games. Today people are more interested in flight from themselves than discovering their authentic self.