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The real world looked washed-out and blurry by comparison.
Ready Player One
Ernest Cline
Some of Nietzsche’s most prescient pages are those in which he describes the ‘oversatu-ration of an age with history’. ‘It leads an age into a dangerous mood of irony in regard to itself’, he wrote in Untimely Meditations, ‘and subsequently into the even more dangerous mood of cynicism’, in which ‘cosmopolitan fingering’, a detached spectatorialism, replaces engagement and involvement. This is the condition of Nietzsche’s Last Man, who has seen everything, but is decadently enfeebled precisely by this excess of (self) awareness.
Capitalist Realism
Mark Fisher
The primary question for the corporations, and so necessarily for us, is not how the world will be fed, but who will control the land, and therefore the wealth, of the world.
The World-Ending Fire
Wendell Berry
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