’The daily press is the evil principle of the modern world, and time will only serve to disclose this fact with greater and greater clearness. The capacity of the newspaper for degeneration is sophistically without limit, since it can always sink lower and lower in its choice of readers. At last it will stir up all those dregs of humanity which no state or government can control.’ Kierkegaard, The Last Years, Journals 1853-5 (quoted in Hunter S Thompson’s ‘Hell’s Angels’)
and of course it must be kept in mind that our entire mindset has been ‘daily press-ized’… music, art, facebook. if you’re not the LATEST and COOLEST thing, you’re screwed. well i hail spiritually and artistically (even chronologically) from the 60s and 70s and i say the daily press mentality can kiss it.
oh and ps. you’ve also got to love hunter s, and kierkegaard. men from a time when you used your brain for more than digesting the latest vile trash to emerge from the Spectacle. Society of. Where looking good and making it big are so important, you forget to do the most important thing: live like it matters.
Cheers! (so ok, this is longer than an aphorism. so sue me!)