it is dochs oars, sûnt 2001

AUSTER
The ‘entertainment-industrial complex,’ as the art critic Robert Hughes once put it. The media presents us with little else but celebrities, gossip, and scandal, and the way we depict ourselves on television and in the movies has become so distorted, so debased, that real life has been forgotten. What we’re given are violent shocks and dim-witted escapist fantasies, and the driving force behind it all is money. People are treated as morons.

boeklog 22 xi 2009