Status Updates From Chronicles Of A Liquid Society

'The more historically improbable the facts you put together, the more mystery-starved readers you'll find to buy it.'

'Many writers, even when accustomed to writing with a computer, know that sometimes they'd prefer to carve like the Sumerians on a tablet of clay so as to think in peace.'

'It's true that tourism, however superficial, is a way of learning about the world. Except that travel at one time was a special experience, and people would come back changed, but all you meet now are seasoned travelers who have not been affected at all by the bustle of Elsewhere.'

'It's very important to realize you're not God, always to be doubtful about what you do, and to feel you haven't spent the years of your life well enough. It's the only way of spending the remaining years better.'

'In other words, for the first time in the history of mankind, those who are being spied upon are helping the spies to make their work easier, and gain satisfaction from being observed as they live, even if at times they are behaving like criminals or idiots.'

'All that's left is the eye of society, the eye of the Other, before whom you must reveal yourself so as not to disappear into the black hole of anonymity'

'And will this child of the future think it normal to live in a world where the prime virtue is being seen, a value more important now than sex or money?'

'Postmodernism signaled the crisis of "grand narratives," each of which had claimed that one model of order could be superimposed on the world; it devoted itself to a playful or ironic reconsideration of the past, and was woven in various ways with nihilistic tendencies.'

Don’t understand most of this, but maybe I’ll learn something