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Chapter 5, on its own, is a series of escalating horrors. The story of intensified consumer capitalism in a nutshell. As above, so below.

"The solitary, uninterrupted process of machine play, by contrast, tends to produce a steady, trancelike state that 'distracts from internal and external issues' such as anxiety, depression, and boredom."

"They don’t talk about competition or excitement—they talk about climbing into the screen and getting lost.”

oddly melancholic. i have an inkling on some of the themes of the book, but i'll wait until i'm done to talk about it.

it's also radically different from the film, which i watched first a long long time ago.

"It is well understood that factory work, compared to work in shops or even agricultural work, makes workers more politically aware and disciplined because of its very nature – a large number of people working in a closely connected and synchronized way in a confined and organized space."

An interesting line on how work shapes us from the book.

This Napoleon fella is pretty smart huh

still at preface but im really happy im back reading

damn a lot of filler

I read the entire first quarter in a night, I can't literally stop reading. This book really knows how to keep the reader seated.