I started reading The Society of The Spectacle by Guy Debord. My friend purchased it in a fit of raucous philosophical angst after he discovered our local Chapters (corporate bookstore chain) had stocked only the barest and most shitty of the Philosophy section, with gems such as
FINAL FANTASY AND PHILOSOPHY
BREAKING BAD AND PHILOSOPHY
CIGARETTE SMOKING AND PHILOSOPHY
THE ZEN ART OF MOTORCYCLE REPAIR
THE ZEN ART OF COOKING CRYSTAL METH
etc...
It's pretty much exactly what I need to read right now so that I'll stop purchasing stupid garbage. Abrupt marxist criticism of obsession, addiction and dependency on a self-improving utterly autonomous media entity coagulating our senses with an entirely separate world for us to consider and judge our decisions from that, though completely synthetic and within our own minds, dominates our decisions and basically makes every assumption a conclusion before we consider it.
Semi-related: Television fucking sucks nowadays.
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