elephant in the room - our culture is broken
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Says the dupe in the novel
Objectively flawless experience
Thanks for making the world a better place, all the way
Without anything wrong with it
And it being perfect
Checks out -- lit up red on my Clearly-in-the-wrong-o-meter
wow thanks this is awesome
"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers." Thomas Jefferson
"Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists." Norman Mailer
"Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation." George Bernard Shaw
"In the real world, the right thing never happens in the right place and the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to make it appear that it has." Mark Twain
"I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets." Napoleon
"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." Malcolm X
"The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands." Oscar Wilde
"The lowest depth to which people can sink before God is defined by the word journalist." Soren Kierkegaard